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FIRST  EDITIONS  OF 

THE  WORKS  OF 
NATHANIEL  HAWTHORNE 


LIBRARY 

RSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 
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FIRST  EDITIONS 

OF 

THE  WORKS   OF 
NATHANIEL  HAWTHORNE 

TOGETHER  WITH  SOME 

MANUSCRIPTS,   LETTERS 
AND  PORTRAITS 


EXHIBITED  AT  THE  GROLIER  CLUB 

FROM  DECEMBER  8  TO  DECEMBER  24 

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FIRST    EDITIONS 

OF 

THE  WORKS   OF 
NATHANIEL   HAWTHORNE 


FIRST   EDITIONS 

OF 

THE  WORKS    OF 
NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE 

TOGETHER   WITH    SOME 

MANUSCRIPTS,  LETTERS 
AND    PORTRAITS 

EXHIBITED  AT  THE  GROLIER   CLUB 

FROM  DECEMBER  8  TO  DECEMBER  24, 

1904 


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1904 


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PREFACE 

ATATHANIEL  HAWTHORNE  was 
1M  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  on 
Independence  Day,  one  hundred  years 
ago.  It  has  been  thought  fitting  that  the 
Grolier  Club  should  mark  its  interest  in 
his  centenary  by  an  exhibition  of  the 
works  of  this,  our  foremost  American  ro- 
mancer. In  so  doing  the  Club  follows  the 
example  of  several  other  institutions,  no- 
tably the  Essex  Institute  of  Salem,  whose 
exhibition  showed  not  only  the  books  pub- 
lished by  Hawthorne,  but  also  many  ob- 
jects of  a  biographical  nature. 

The  exhibition  here  catalogued  has  been 
restricted  to  first  editions  of  the  writer's 
works,  with  some  few  manuscripts,  letters, 
and  portraits.  The  portrait  by  the  Ger- 
man historical  painter  Emanuel  Leutze, 
lent  by  a  gentleman  not  a  member  of  the 


Club,  adds  not  a  little  of  special  interest 
to  the  occasion. 

Besides  the  testimony  of  respect  which 
it  bears  to  the  man  it  commemorates,  such 
an  exhibition  as  this  serves  to  show  in  a 
tangible  way  the  scope  of  Hawthorne's 
literary  genius,  and  spreads  in  sequence 
before  the  collector  the  volumes,  which, 
with  time,  are  growing  more  and  more 
desirable. 

Time,  too,  brings  to  these  small  books 
an  increased  interest  on  the  part  of  the 
typographer.  While  individually  the  vol- 
umes are  unpretentious  to  a  degree,  this 
very  simplicity,  coupled  as  it  is  with  legi- 
bility, gives  them  dignity,  and  commends 
them  to  the  attention  of  printers.  The 
printing  presses  of  Putnam  &  Hunt,  Free- 
man &  Bolles,  Folsom,  Wells  &  Thurs- 
ton,  I.  R.  Butts,  and  of  many  other  for- 
gotten names,  not  to  mention  those  of 
better-known  firms  of  forty  years  ago, 
will  be  found  remarkable  for  the  good 
taste  of  their  clear  and  legible  books. 

Whether  or  not  this  point  of  taste  be 
agreed  upon,  it  will  be  admitted  that,  side 
by  side,  these  books  put  forth  by  Haw- 
thorne's publishers  show  the  growth  of 
American  book-making  in  the  last  sev- 
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enty-five  years.  In  particular,  they  re- 
mind us  that  the  process  of  stereotyping, 
now  rapidly  disappearing  before  the  more 
durable  electrotype,  in  its  popular  form 
was  of  comparatively  recent  date,  having 
been  invented  in  1810.  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  the  legibility  of  the  pages  of 
many  of  the  books  is  due  to  the  fact  that 
the  soft  metal  stereotype  necessitated 
printing  upon  dampened  paper,  to  avoid 
wearing  out  the  plates,  and  that  thus  the 
effect  of  ink  and  type  was  heightened. 

By  a  survey  of  the  collection,  we  are 
forcibly  reminded  of  another  interesting 
fact,  which  is  that  cloth,  one  of  the  most 
desirable  materials  for  the  bindings  of 
books,  is  an  invention  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Introduced  in  England  by  the 
binder  Archibald  Leighton,  in  1822, 
American  binders  and  publishers  were  not 
slow  to  see  its  value.  Used  at  first  with 
a  "  smooth-washed "  surface,  the  cloth 
began  to  be  embossed  about  1831,  and 
stamped  in  blind  and  gold  about  1832. 

Thus  the  Grolier  Club  in  this  exhibition 
adds  a  contribution  to  the  celebration, 
trusting  that  it  may  prove  to  the  lovers 
of  Hawthorne  an  acceptable  tribute  to  his 
memory. 

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WORKS    PUBLISHED 

1828-1863 

Fanshawe,  A  Tale.  |  "  Wilt  thou 
go  on  with  me?" — Southey.  | 
Boston:  |  Marsh  &  Capen,  362 
Washington  Street.  Press  Of  Put- 
nam And  Hunt.  |  1828. 

Duodecimo.     141  pp. 

Copyrighted,  July  22,  1828.     Published  in 

buff  boards,  cloth  back  and  paper  label. 

Hawthorne's  first  book,  published  anony- 
mously and  unacknowledged  by  him. 

Horatio  Bridge,  his  classmate  and  lifelong 
friend,  says :  "  It  is  well  known  that,  soon  after 
graduating,  he  prepared  for  the  press  a  little 
volume  of  tales,  entitled  Seven  Tales  of  my 
Native  Land.  The  publisher  who  engaged  to 
bring  out  the  book  was  so  dilatory  that  at  last 


THE    WORKS,  OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Hawthorne,  becoming  impatient  and  dissatis- 
fied with  the  excuses  given,  peremptorily  de- 
manded the  return  of  the  manuscript  .  .  .  and 
though,  as  he  wrote  me  at  the  time,  he  was  con- 
scious of  having  been  too  hard  in  his  censures, 
he  would  not  recede,  and  he  burned  the  manu- 
script in  a  mood  half  savage,  half  despairing. 
As  I  expressed  to  him — perhaps  too  strongly — 
my  regret  for  this  proceeding,  he  did  not,  when 
Fanshawe  was  published,  confide  to  me  the 
fact.  Hearing,  though,  of  the  publication,  I 
procured  a  copy,  and  subsequently  mentioned  it 
to  Hawthorne.  He  had  meantime  become  dis- 
satisfied with  the  book,  and  he  called  in  and 
destroyed  all  the  copies  he  could  reach.  At  his 
request  I  burned  my  copy,  and  we  never  alluded 
to  Fanshawe  afterwards." 

Hawthorne's  sister  Elizabeth  states :  "  I  recol- 
lect that  he  said,  when  he  was  still  in  hopes 
to  publish  them  (Seven  Tales  of  my  Native 
Land),  that  he  would  write  a  story  which 
would  make  a  smaller  book,  and  get  it  published 
immediately  if  possible,  before  the  arrange- 
ments for  bringing  out  the  Tales  were  com- 
pleted. So  he  wrote  Fanshawe  and  published 
it  at  his  own  expense,  paying  $100  for  that  pur- 
pose. There  were  a  few  copies  sold,  and  he 
gave  me  one;  but  afterwards  he  took  possession 
of  it,  and  no  doubt  burned  it.  We  were  en- 
joined to  keep  the  authorship  a  profound  secret, 
and  of  course  we  did,  with  one  or  two  excep- 
tions." 

James  T.  Fields  states :  "  I  once  asked  him 
about  this  disowned  publication  (Fanshawe), 
and  he  spoke  of  it  with  great  disgust,  and  after- 


THE   WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

wards  he  thus  referred  to  the  subject  in  a  letter 
to  me  in  1851 :  '  You  make  an  inquiry  about 
some  supposed  former  publication  of  mine.  I 
cannot  be  sworn  to  make  correct  answers  as  to 
all  the  literary  or  other  follies  of  my  nonage; 
and  I  earnestly  recommend  you  not  to  brush 
away  the  dust  that  may  have  gathered  over 
them.  Whatever  might  do  me  credit  you  may 
be  pretty  sure  I  should  be  ready  enough  to  bring 
forward.  Anything  else  it  is  to  our  mutual  in- 
terest to  conceal ;  and  so  far  from  assisting  your 
researches  in  that  direction,  I  especially  enjoin 
on  you,  my  dear  friend,  not  to  read  any  un- 
acknowledged page  that  you  may  suppose  to  be 
mine.'  " 

Although  published  anonymously  in  Boston, 
and  almost  immediately  suppressed  by  the  au- 
thor, there  is  evidence  that  the  book  soon  re- 
ceived attention  in  one  quarter  at  least,  for  it 
was  generously  reviewed  in  the  Critic  (issue  of 
November  22,  1828),  a  periodical  published  in 
New  York  at  27  Wall  Street,  and  edited  by 
William  Leggett,  from  which  notice  may  be 
quoted :  "  The  mind  which  produced  this  little 
interesting  volume  is  capable  of  making  great 
and  rich  additions  to  our  literature,  and  it  will, 
or  we  shall  be  sadly  mistaken.  The  author  is  a 
scholar,  though  he  makes  no  ostentatious  dis- 
play of  scholarship;  he  is  a  poet,  though  there 
are  not  two  dozen  metrical  lines  in  the  volume 
with  which  to  substantiate  the  assertion;  he  is 
a  gentleman,  though  the  nearest  approach  to 
gentlemen  in  his  pages  are  two  country  college 
boys ;  and  he  possesses  a  heart  alive  to  the  beau- 
ties of  nature  and  the  beauties  of  sentiment,  and 

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replete    with    all    those    kindly    feelings    which 
adorn  and  dignify  human  nature." 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  copy  retained 
by  Nahum  Capen,  one  of  the  firm  of  publishers, 
is  now  in  the  Boston  Public  Library,  accompa- 
nied by  a  letter  of  presentation  from  the  donor, 
dated  October  9,  1871. 

2.  Twice-Told  Tales.  |  By  |  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne.  |  [Printer's  mark]  Bos- 
ton: |  American  Stationers  Co.  | 
John  B.  Russell.  |  1837. 

Duodecimo.     [4],  [5]—  334  PP- 
Copyrighted,    1837.      Published   in   cloth, 
title  stamped  in  gold  on  back.     First  4 
pp.  and  16  additional  unnumbered  pp.  at 
end,  publisher's  advertisements. 
On    verso    of    title-page:    Freeman    And 
Bolles,  Printers,  Washington  Street. 

This  is  a  collection  of  tales,  all  of  which  had 
been  contributed  to  annuals  and  magazines. 
The  publication  in  this  form  seems  to  have  been 
contemplated  many  years  before  its  issue.  S. 
G.  Goodrich  (the  publisher  of  the  Tokens,  and 
well  known  as  "Peter  Parley")  in  a  letter  to 
Hawthorne  writes  under  date  of  June  19,  1830: 
"  I  brought  the  MSS.  which  you  sent  me  to 
this  place  ...  I  have  read  them  with  great 
pleasure.  The  Gentle  Boy  and  My  Uncle 
Molineaux  I  like  particularly  ...  On  my  re- 


THE   WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL   HAWTHORNE. 

turn  to  Boston  in  April,  I  will  use  my  influence 
to  induce  a  publisher  to  take  hold  of  the  work, 
who  will  give  it  a  fair  chance  of  success.  Had 
Fanshawe  been  in  the  hands  of  more  exten- 
sive dealers,  I  do  believe  it  would  have  paid 
you  a  profit." 

In  a  letter  of  Hawthorne  to  Goodrich,  dated 
May  6,  1830,  he  refers  to  the  Provincial  Tales, 
adding,  "  such  being  the  title  I  propose  giving 
my  volume." 

A  strong  incentive  for  the  publication  of  these 
collected  tales  appeared  in  The  American 
Monthly  Magazine  for  October,  1836.  In  a  re- 
view of  his  last  tales  in  The  Token,  the  ano- 
nymity of  the  authorship  was  exposed  and 
summed  up  as  follows :  "  If  Mr.  Hawthorne 
would  but  collect  his  various  tales  and  essays 
into  one  volume,  we  can  assure  him  that  their 
success  would  be  brilliant — certainly  in  Eng- 
land, perhaps  in  this  country." 

Horatio  Bridge  says :  "  From  time  to  time  I 
heard  of  this  intended  publication,  and  con- 
stantly encouraged  Hawthorne  to  bring  out  the 
volume.  .  .  At  last  ...  I  wrote  to  Mr.  Goodrich 
and  asked  if  there  was  any  pecuniary  obstacle  in 
the  way  of  the  publication ;  adding,  if  that  were 
the  cause  of  the  delay,  I  would  obviate  it  by 
guaranteeing  the  publisher  against  loss."  Good- 
rich's  reply,  dated  October  20,  1836,  was:  "It 
will  cost  about  $450  to  print  1000  volumes  in 
good  style.  I  have  seen  the  publisher,  and  he 
agrees  to  publish  it  if  he  can  be  guaranteed 
$250  as  an  ultimate  resort  against  loss.  If  you 
will  find  that  guaranty,  the  thing  shall  be  put 
immediately  in  hand."  Bridge  gave  the  requi- 

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site  guarantee  at  once,  stipulating  only  that  the 
affair  should  be  concealed  from  Hawthorne. 
Goodrich  soon  writes  to  Hawthorne  under  date 
of  November  7,  1836,  "  I  think  your  selection  of 
the  tales  nearly  right.  Suppose  you  say,  for  title, 
The  Gray  Champion  and  Other  Tales  by  N.  H." 

Hawthorne  later  decided  upon  the  title,  and 
on  February  9,  1837,  Goodrich  writes  to  him, 
"  The  Twice-Told  Tales  will  be  ready  for  the 
public  eye  in  about  ten  days.  It  will  be  a  hand- 
some book, — as  to  the  interior,  I  know  it  will 
take." 

The  book  was,  however,  not  published  until 
March  6,  for  on  March  4  (Saturday),  the 
publisher  writes  to  Hawthorne,  "  We  shall  pub- 
lish your  book  next  Monday.  I  am  directing 
the  presentation  copies,  as  you  directed,  and 
have  sent  you  twelve  herewith  .  .  ." 

Bridge  states:  "The  success  of  Twice-Told 
Tales  was  not  pecuniarily  great  at  first,  but  in 
this  country  and  still  more  in  England,  where 
Hawthorne  was  promptly  and  highly  appre- 
ciated, the  book  established  his  right  to  a  place 
among  living  authors  of  recognized  power." 

A  review  of  the  book  by  Longfellow  appeared 
in  The  North  American  Review  for  July,  1837, 
which  was  enthusiastically  acknowledged  by 
Hawthorne  in  a  letter  to  Longfellow,  on  June  19. 


Peter  Parley's    Universal  History,  | 

On  The  Basis  Of    |    Geography.    | 

[Vignette]   For  The  Use  Of  Fam- 

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THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

ilies.  Illustrated  By  Maps  And 
Engravings.  |  Vol.  I.  |  Boston:  | 
American  Stationers'  Company.  | 
John  B.  Russell.  1837. 

Duodecimo.  Two  volumes.  Woodcut 
maps  and  illustrations.  Vol.  I :  viii,  vii, 
[9]-38o  pp.  Vol.  II:  xii,  [13] -374  PP- 
Copyrighted,  1837.  Published  in  stamped 
cloth. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Cambridge :  Fol- 
som,  Wells  And  Thurston,  Printers  To 
The  University. 

This  work  was  written  and  compiled  by  Haw- 
thorne and  his  sister  Elizabeth,  for  on  May  5, 
1836,  Hawthorne  writes  to  her :  "  I  saw  Mr. 
Goodrich  yesterday.  .  .  He  wants  me  to  un- 
dertake a  Universal  History,  to  contain  about  as 
much  as  fifty  or  sixty  pages  of  the  magazine. 
(These  were  large  pages.)  If  you  are  willing 
to  write  any  part  of  it  ...  I  shall  agree  to  do 
it.  If  necessary  I  will  come  home  by  and  by, 
and  concoct  the  plan  of  it  with  you." 

Again  on  May  n:  "Our  pay  as  historians 
of  the  universe,  will  be  about  one  hundred  dol- 
lars, the  whole  of  which  you  may  have.  It  is 
a  poor  compensation,  but  better  than  the  To- 
ken; because  the  writing  is  so  much  less  diffi- 
cult." . 

Goodrich  acknowledges  the  receipt  of  the 
MSS.,  in  a  letter  to  Hawthorne  dated  September 
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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

23,  1836,  saying,  "  Your  letter  and  the  two  fo- 
lios of  the  Universal  History  were  received 
some  days  ago.  I  like  the  History  pretty  well, 
—I  shall  make  it  do." 

Hawthorne's  part  in  this  work  is  further  es- 
tablished by  Goodrich  in  his  Recollections  of  a 
Lifetime.  In  referring  to  a  list  of  "  Parley " 
books  he  states,  "As  to  Parley's  Historical 
Compends — some  nine  or  ten  volumes — I  had 
the  assistance  of  N.  Hawthorne,  and  J.  O.  Sar- 
gent, Esqs.,  and  others." 

Some  of  the  maps  are  signed  "  Devereux.  Sc.", 
but  the  illustrations  are  unsigned. 

[Vignette]  Time's  Portraiture.  | 
Being  The  Carrier's  Address  To 
The  Patrons  Of  The  |  Salem  Ga- 
zette For  The  First  Of  January, 

1838  [1837.] 

Broadside,  16  x  22  inches. 
The  type  page   (14  x*  20  inches)   is  sur- 
rounded  by   a   border   of   printer's   orna- 
ments. 

The  first  clue  to  the  authorship  of  this  Ad- 
dress is  given  in  a  foot-note  under  the  word 
"Hatihornes"  :  "Not  ' Hawthorne,' — as  one  of 
the  present  representatives  of  the  family  has 
seen  fit  to  transmogrify  a  good  old  name.  How- 
ever, Time  seldom  has  occasion  to  mention  the 
gentleman's  name,  so  that  it  is  no  great  matter 
how  he  spells  or  pronounces  it." 
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This  tale  was  never  collected  and  printed  by 
Hawthorne,  but  it  was  reprinted  as  The  Carri- 
er's Address  for  the  first  of  January,  1853,  with 
a  bracketed  note  to  the  above  note  intimating 
the  authorship.  (See  No.  29.) 

In  The  Carrier's  Address  for  1881,  we  find 
a  further  reference  to  the  author  of  the  broad- 
side :  "  They  unfolded  one  entitled  '  A  Por- 
traiture of  Father  Time.'  One  of  the  boys,  as 
it  was  read  aloud,  said  he  had  heard  his  grand- 
father say  that  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  had  as- 
sisted a  past  generation  of  carriers  in  writing 
that  .  .  ." 


5.  The  Gentle  Boy:  A  |  Thrice  Told 
Tale;  By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne: 
J  With  An  Original  Illustration.  | 
Boston:  |  Weeks,  Jordan  &  Co. 
121  Washington  Street,  |  New  York 
&  London:  |  Wiley  &  Putnam.  [ 
1839. 

Oblong  quarto.    Frontispiece,  20  pp. 
Published  in  brown  paper  covers,  bearing 
the  title. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Copyright  secured. 
Press  of  I.  R.  Butts,  School  Street,  Boston. 

This  tale  first  appeared  in  The  Token,  Boston, 
1832,  and  so  attracted  the  attention  of  Sophia 
Peabody  (afterwards  Hawthorne's  wife)  that 

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she  made  a  drawing  which  is  referred  to  by 
her  sister  Elizabeth  as  follows :  "  Whenever  af- 
ter this  he  called  at  our  house  he  generally  saw 
Sophia.  One  day  she  showed  him  her  illustra- 
tion of  The  Gentle  Boy,  saying,  '  I  want  to  know 
if  this  looks  like  your  Ilbrahim?'  He  sat  down 
and  looked  at  it,  then  looked  up  and  said,  '  He 
will  never  look  otherwise  to  me.' " 

George  P.  Lathrop  further  states :  "  The  draw- 
ing was  shown  to  Washington  Allston,  who  ac- 
corded it  his  praise;  and  a  Miss  Burleigh,  who 
was  one  of  the  earliest  admirers  of  Hawthorne's 
genius,  having  offered  to  pay  the  cost  of  an 
engraving  from  it,  the  design  was  reproduced 
and  printed  with  a  new  special  edition  of  the 
story,  accompanied  by  a  Preface  and  Dedica- 
tion." This  reads:  "To  Miss  Sophia  A.  Pea- 
body,  this  little  tale,  to  which  her  kindred  art 
has  given  value,  is  respectfully  inscribed  by  the 
Author." 

In  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  of  December 
31,  1838,  this  issue  of  The  Gentle  Boy  was  an- 
nounced as  "published  this  day"  by  Weeks, 
Jordan  &  Co. 

The  steel-engraved  frontispiece  has  the  leg- 
end: above,  "The  Gentle  Boy";  below,  "The 
boy  had  hushed  his  wailing  at  once  and  turned 
his  face  upward  to  the  stranger  ".  It  is  signed, 
"  S.  A.  P.  1838  ",  "  J.  Andrews." 

Joseph  Andrews  (1806-1873),  a  native  of 
Hingham,  Mass.,  was  apprenticed  to  Abel 
Brown,  the  Boston  wood-engraver,  in  1821.  He 
learned  to  engrave  on  copper  from  Hoogland, 
and  studied  under  Joseph  Goodyear  in  London, 
in  1835. 

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6.  The  |  Sister  Years;  |  Being  The  | 
Carrier's  Address,  |  To  The  Patrons 
|  Of  The    Salem  Gazette,  |  For  The 
|  First  Of  January,  |  1839.  |  Salem. 

I  1839- 

Octavo.    8  pp. 

Issued  as  a  leaflet. 

On    verso    of    title-page :  "  HAPPY    NEW 

YEAR." 

This  address,  issued  anonymously,  was,  how- 
ever, collected  by  Hawthorne  in  Vol.  II  of  his 
new  and  enlarged  edition  of  the  Twice-Told 
Tales,  Boston,  1842,  after  many  changes  in  punc- 
tuation, and  some  omission  of  text. 

7.  Grandfather's  Chair:     A  |  History 
|  For  |  Youth.  |  By  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne.    |    Author    of    Twice-Told 
Tales.  |  Boston:  |  E.  P.  Peabody.  | 
New  York:— Wiley   &   Putnam.    | 
1841. 

Thirtytwo-mo.    vii,  [9]  — 140  pp. 
Preface  dated,   Boston,   November,    1840; 
copyrighted,    1840.      Published    in    cloth, 
with  glazed  paper  label,  printed  in  gilt,  on 
front  cover. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Printed  by  S.  N. 
Dickinson,  52  Washington  Street, 
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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

This  is  the  first  part  of  a  series  of  sketches 
about  New  England  history  for  children,  and 
about  which  Professor  Woodberry  says :  "  He 
gave  his  attention  now  to  writing  some  chil- 
dren's books,  partly  under  the  influence  of  his 
old  '  Peter  Parley '  instruction  and  experience, 
and  partly,  no  doubt,  under  the  encouragement 
and  advice  of  Elizabeth  Peabody,  who  was  in- 
terested in  such  literature.  The  Peabodys,  on 
removing  to  Boston,  had  opened  a  shop,  a  li- 
brary and  book-store  and  homoeopathic  drug- 
store, all  in  one,  of  which  she  was  the  head, 
and  with  her  name  Hawthorne  associated  his 
new  ventures.  He  had  contemplated  writing 
children's  books,  as  a  probable  means  of  profit, 
before  he  received  his  appointment  in  the  Cus- 
tom House,  as  he  said  in  his  letter  to  Longfel- 
low ;  and  he  merely  stuck  to  the  plan  under  the 
new  conditions.  The  result  was  three  volumes 
of  historical  tales  for  young  people,  drawn  from 
New  England  in  the  colonial  and  revolutionary 
times,  under  different  titles,  but  making  one 
series:— Grandfather's  Chair,  Famous  Old  Peo- 
ple, and  Liberty  Tree.  They  appeared  in  rapid 
succession  in  1841,  and  were  successful." 

In  a  letter  to  Longfellow  on  June  4,  1837, 
Hawthorne  had  written :  "  As  to  my  literary  ef- 
forts, I  do  not  think  much  of  them,  neither  is 
it  worth  while  to  be  ashamed  of  them.  They 
would  have  been  better,  I  trust,  if  written  under 
more  favorable  circumstances.  .  .  I  have  now, 
or  shall  soon  have,  a  sharper  spur  to  exertion, 
which  I  lacked  at  an  earlier  period;  for  I  see 
little  prospect  but  that  I  shall  have  to  scribble 
for  a  living.  But  this  troubles  me  much  less 
than  you  would  suppose.  I  can  turn  my  pen  to 
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all  sorts  of  drudgery,  such  as  children's  books, 
etc.,  and  by  and  by  I  shall  get  some  editorship 
that  will  answer  my  purpose." 

Of  his  conscientious  motives  in  this  direction 
we  have  evidence  in  his  preface  to  one  of  this 
group  of  children's  books,  dated  January  17, 
1842 :  "  This  small  volume,  and  others  of  a  simi- 
lar character,  from  the  same  hand,  have  not 
been  composed  without  a  deep  sense  of  respon- 
sibility. The  author  regards  children  as  sacred, 
and  would  not,  for  the  world,  cast  anything  into 
the  fountain  of  a  young  heart,  that  might  em- 
bitter and  pollute  its  waters." 

8.  Famous  Old  People:  |  Being     The 
Second  Epoch  |  Of     Grandfather's 
Chair.   |   By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 
|    Author  Of  Twice-Told  Tales.    | 
Boston:     E.  P.  Peabody,     13  West 
Street.  |  1841. 

Thirtytwo-mo.    vii,  [9]— 158  pp. 
Preface    dated,    Boston,    Dec.    30,    1840; 
copyrighted,    1841.      Published    in    cloth, 
with  glazed  paper  label,  printed  in  gold, 
on  front  cover. 

On  verso  of  title-page:  Printed  by  S.  N. 
Dickinson,  52  Washington  Street. 

9.  Liberty  Tree:    |   With  The   |    Last 
Words  |  Of  |  Grandfather's  Chair. 

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|   By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,   |   Au- 
thor of  Twice-Told  Tales.  |  Boston. 
E.  P.  Peabody,  13  West  Street.  | 
1841. 

Thirtytwo-mo.    vii,  [9]  — 160  pp. 
Preface   dated,   Boston,   Feb.   27th,    1841 ; 
copyrighted,    1841.      Published    in    cloth, 
with  glazed  paper  label,  printed  in  gold, 
on  front  cover. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Printed  by  S.  N. 
Dickinson,  52  Washington  Street. 


10.  Grandfather's  Chair:  A  History 
For  Youth.  |  By  |  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne, |  Author  Of  "Twice-Told 
Tales."  |  Second  Edition,  |  Revised 
And  Enlarged.  |  Boston:  Tappan 
And  Dennet,  |  114  Washington 
Street.  |  1842. 

Sexto-decimo.  vii,  [9]  — 139  pp.,  includ- 
ing frontispiece  and  one  plate  (woodcut). 
Preface  dated,  Boston,  November,  1840; 
copyrighted,  1840.  Published  in  cloth, 
blind  and  gold  stamped.  5  pp.  publishers' 
advertisements  at  end,  beginning  on  verso 
of  last  leaf. 

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On  verso  of  title-page :  Cambridge :  T.  G. 
Wells,  Printer  To  The  University. 

This  revised  edition  contains  additions  to  the 
text  on  pages  21,  36-37,  59  and  72,  with  some 
other  minor  changes  in  text  and  punctuation. 

11.  Famous  Old  People:  |  Being  |  The 
Second  Epoch   |    Of  Grandfather's 
Chair.     By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne, 
|  Author  Of  "  Twice-Told  Tales/'  | 
Second  Edition.  |  Boston :  |  Tappan 
&  Dennet,  |  114  Washington  Street. 
|  1842. 

Sexto-decimo.  viii,  [9]  — 158  pp.,  includ- 
ing frontispiece  and  one  plate  (woodcut). 
Preface  dated,  Boston,  Dec.  30,  1840; 
copyrighted,  1841.  Published  in  cloth, 
blind  and  gold  stamped.  2  pp.  publishers' 
advertisements  at  end. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  Press  of  T.  R. 
Marvin,  24  Congress  Street. 

A  reprint  of  the  1841  edition  with  only  minor 
changes. 

12.  Liberty  Tree:    |   With  The   |   Last 
Words  |  Of  |  Grandfather's  Chair.  | 
By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,     Author 

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of  "  Twice-Told  Tales."  |  Boston : 
Tappan  And  Dennet,      114  Wash- 
ington Street.  |  1842. 

Sexto-decimo.  viii,  [9]— 156  pp.,  includ- 
ing frontispiece  and  one  plate  (woodcut). 
Preface  dated,  Boston,  Feb.  2/th,  1841 ; 
copyrighted,  1841.  Published  in  cloth, 
gold  and  blind  stamped. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  Boston ;  Printed 
by  Isaac  R.  Butts,  No.  2  School  Street. 

The  first  issue  of  this  new  edition  appeared 
with  the  design  of  a  chair  stamped  in  gilt  on 
the  front  cover.  A  later  issue,  of  the  same  date, 
appeared  without  this  chair  impression  and  with 
a  different  design  of  stamping  on  the  cloth. 

13.  Biographical  Stories  |  For  Children. 
|  Benjamin  West,  Sir  Isaac  New- 
ton, |  Samuel  Johnson,  |  Oliver 
Cromwell,  |  Benjamin  Franklin,  | 
Queen  Christina.  By  |  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne,  Author  of  "  Histori- 
cal Tales  for  Youth,"  "  Twice-Told 
Tales/'  &c.  |  Boston :  |  Tappan  And 
Dennet,  114  Washington  Street.  | 
1842. 

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Sexto-decimo.    v,  [7]  — 161  pp. 
Preface  dated,  Boston,  Jan.  17,  1842 ;  copy- 
righted,    1842.       Published     in     stamped 
cloth. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Butts,  Printer,  2 
School  St. 


14.    Hawthorne's  |  Historical  |  Tales  | 
for  Youth.     [1842.] 

Eighteen-mo.     Two  volumes. 

These  volumes  consist  of  the  four  preceding 
juvenile  books— the  first  two,  Grandfather's 
Chair  and  Famous  Old  People,  bound  in  Vol- 
ume I,  and  the  other  two,  Liberty  Tree  and 
Biographical  Stories,  bound  in  Volume  II.  On 
the  back  of  each  volume  is  a  binder's  title,  as 
above,  in  gilt,  but  they  have  no  other  title-pages 
than  the  individual  titles  of  the  four  smaller 
volumes. 

That  Hawthorne  contemplated  having  these 
four  juvenile  books  regularly  issued  in  two  vol- 
umes under  this  new  title  is  evidenced  by  the 
fact  that  on  the  title-page  of  the  Biographical 
Stories  he  is  named  as  the  author  of  Historical 
Tales  for  Youth,  Twice  Told  Tales,  etc.;  but 
the  project  seems  to  have  been  abandoned,  ex- 
cept in  so  far  that  a  small  number  of  these  four 
juveniles  were  bound  in  this  two- volume  form. 
It  was,  however,  carried  out  some  years  later 
under  the  title  of  True  Stories. 

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15.    The     Sunday  School  Society's  Gift. 
[Boston,  1842.] 

Twentyfour-mo.     16  pp. 

Published  as  a  tract  without  covers. 

An  authorized  issue  of  the  biography  of 
Samuel  Johnson,  after  several  changes,  correc- 
tions, and  omissions  of  text ;  this  sketch  having 
formed  one  of  the  Biographical  Stories. 

In  the  introductory  note,  dated  Boston,  1842, 
addressed  to  "  Dear  Young  Friends,"  and  signed 
"  The  Sunday  School  Society,"  we  read : 

"  This  story  was  written  by  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne, and  he  has  given  us  the  liberty  of 
printing  it  for  you.  He  has  written  some  very 
interesting  books  both  for  young  and  old. 
Many  have  read  his  Twice  Told  Tales,  and 
the  smaller  volumes,  such  as  Grandfather's 
Chair,  Liberty  Tree,  and  Biographical  Stories, 
have  been  read  with  delight  by  thousands.  ..." 


16.  Twice-Told  Tales.  |  By  |  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne.  |  Volume  I.  |  [Printer's 
ornament]  Boston:  |  James  Mun- 
roe  And  Company.  |  MDCCCXLII. 

Duodecimo.     Two  volumes. 
Vol.  I:  [3],  331  PP.    Vol.  II:  IV,  356  PP- 
Copyrighted,  Vol.  I,  1837;  Vol.  II,  1842. 
Published  in  stamped  cloth.    On  versos  of 
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title-pages :  Boston :  Printed  By  Freeman 
And  Bolles,  Washington  Street. 

Volume  I  contains  the  same  matter  as  the  1837 
edition,  with  The  Toll-Gatherer's  Day  added  at 
pages  279-289,  this  tale  having  first  appeared  in 
the  Democratic  Review  for  October,  1837. 

Volume  II  contains  a  new  list  of  tales,  col- 
lected here  for  the  first  time,  all  of  which  had 
been  contributed  to  annuals  and  magazines. 

17.  The  |  Celestial  Rail-Road:  By 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  Boston:  | 
Published  By  Wilder  &  Co.,  No. 
46  Washington  Street.  |  1843. 

Thirtytwo-mo.    32  pp. 
Published  in  buff  paper,  with  title  on  front 
cover,  enclosed  in  a  plain  border  with  or- 
namental corners. 

On  the  cover  title  after  "Rail-Road"  is  a 
period  (  .  ),  but  this  is  replaced  by  a  colon  (  :  ) 
on  the  regular  title-page. 

In  1847  another  publisher  issued  an  exact 
reprint  of  this  little  pamphlet,  even  to  the  differ- 
ence in  punctuation  in  cover  title  and  title,  the 
text,  however,  ending  on  page  30,  the  title 
reading : 

The  |  Celestial  Rail-Road:  |  By  Na- 
thaniel Hawthorne.  |  Lowell :  |  Pub- 
lished by  D.  Skinner.  |  1847. 
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Thirtytwo-mo.    30  pp. 

Published  in  buff  paper,  with  title  on  front 

cover,  enclosed  in  ornamental  border. 

1 8.  A  Visit  To  The  |  Celestial  City.  I 
Revised  By  The  Committee  Of  Pub- 
lications Of  The  |  American  Sun- 
day-School Union.  Philadelphia :  j 
American  Sunday-School  Union,  ( 
No.  146  Chestnut  Street.  [1844.] 

Sexto-decimo.  Frontispiece,  54  pp.  3 
plates.  10  pp.  publishers'  advertisements 
at  end. 

A  revised  edition  of  the  preceding  title,  the 
revision  consisting  of  the  omission,  on  page  40, 
of  the  anecdote  about  Beelzebub's  purchase  of  a 
miser's  soul  for  sixpence,  which,  in  the  first 
edition  as  The  Celestial  Rail-Road,  appeared  on 
page  24. 

The  unsigned  plates  are  lithographs,  and  in 
the  later  issues  these  show  the  usual  defects  of 
wear  from  many  impressions. 

The  first  issue  was  published  in  gold  and  blind 
stamped  cloth,  and  some  copies  include  ten 
pages  of  advertisements  at  the  end.  A  later  is- 
sue appeared  in  boards  with  roan  back  having 
gilt  title.  In  still  later  issues,  or  editions  the  let- 
tering on  the  lithograph  stones  had  become  so 
faint  that  the  lines  were  recut  and,  in  one  plate, 
used  as  the  frontispiece,  the  page  number  was 
recut  to  read  12  instead  of  52  as  originally. 
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These  illustrations  are  much  dulled  in  their  im- 
pression. 

Several  editions,  not  dated,  but  from  the  same 
stereotype  plates,  appear  to  have  been  published 
some  years  later.  In  these  the  original  litho- 
graph plates  were  not  used,  but  a  copper-plate 
introduced  as  the  frontispiece. 

Journal  |  Of  An  |  African  Cruiser; 
|  Comprising  Sketches  Of  The  Ca- 
naries, The  Cape  De  |  Verds,  Libe- 
ria, Madeira,  Sierra  Leone,  And  | 
Other  Places  Of  Interest  On  The 
West  I  Coast  Of  Africa.  |  By  An 
Officer  Of  The  U.  S.  Navy.  Edited 
By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  New 
York  &  London.  ]  Wiley  And  Put- 
nam. |  1845. 

Duodecimo,    viii,  [v]— vi,  179  pp. 
Copyrighted    in     1845.     (The    copyright 
form  is  set  in  four  lines.)     Published  in 
buff  wrappers  as  No.  I  of  Wiley  And  Put- 
nam's Library  of  American  Books. 
On  verso  of  title-page,  at  lower  left  and 
right  corners   respectively,   the   names  of 
the  printer  and  stereotyper. 

Later  editions  of  the  same  date  have  the  copy- 
right form  in  three  lines,  and  omit  the  names  of 
either  printer  or  stereotyper,  or  both. 
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While  Hawthorne  is  stated  to  have  been  the 
editor  of  this  Journal,  he  practically  rewrote 
the  notes  of  the  voyage  furnished  by  his  college 
classmate  Horatio  Bridge. 

Bridge  himself  gives  the  origin  of  the  volume : 
"  Early  in  1843  I  was  attached  to  a  ship-of-war 
under  orders  to  the  West  Coast  of  Africa. 
Hawthorne  suggested  the  plan  of  my  taking 
such  notes  as  would  give  me  material  for  a  few 
articles  in  the  Democratic  Review.  This  plan 
was  afterwards,  by  his  advice,  changed  to  that 
of  publishing  the  notes  in  a  book.  I  assented 
to  the  change  on  the  condition  that  he  should 
take  the  trouble  of  editing  and  bringing  out  the 
volume,  and  with  the  further  condition  that  he 
should  have  the  copyright  and  the  sole  profit 
of  the  publication." 

Hawthorne,  on  March  24,  1843,  writes  to 
Bridge:  "I  see  by  the  newspapers  that  you  have 
had  the  good  fortune  to  undergo  a  tremendous 
storm.  Good  fortune  I  call  it,  for  I  should 
be  very  glad  to  go  through  the  same  scene 
myself  if  I  were  sure  of  getting  to  dry  land 
at  last.  .  .  Perhaps  a  description  of  the  tempest 
may  form  a  good  introduction  to  your  se- 
ries of  articles  in  the  Democratic.  .  .  What 
would  you  think  of  having  them  published  in 
a  volume  ?  " 

In  writing  to  Duyckinck  on  March  2,  1845,  he 
says :  "  I  have  remodelled  the  style  .  .  .  when 
it  seemed  necessary,  and  have  developed  his 
ideas,  where  he  failed  to  do  it  himself,  and 
have  put  on  occasional  patches  of  sentimental 
embroidery— at  the  same  time  avoiding  to  tam- 
per with  his  facts,  or  to  change  the  tenor  of  his 

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observations  upon  them;  so  that  the  work  has 
not  become  otherwise  than  authentic,  in  my 
hands." 

On  April  17,  1845,  Hawthorne  again  writes  to 
Bridge :  "  I  have  christened  the  book  the 
Journal  of  an  African  Cruiser.  I  don't  know 
when  it  is  to  come  out— probably  soon.  .  . 
Your  last  letter  arrived  when  the  manuscript 
was  on  the  point  of  being  sent  off,  but  I  con- 
trived to  squeeze  in  whatever  was  essential  of 
the  new  matter." 

Then  on  May  2 :  "  Duyckinck  writes  me 
that  your  book  is  stereotyped  and  about  to  go 
to  press.  The  first  edition  will  be  of  two  thou- 
sand copies,  five  hundred  of  which  will  be  sent 
to  London.  It  seems  they  have  put  in  my  name 
as  editor,  contrary  to  my  purpose,  and  much  to 
my  annoyance.  .  .  I  wished  you  to  have  all 
the  credit  of  the  work  yourself.  Well,  you 
shall  still  engross  all  the  merit,  and  may  charge 
me  with  all  the  faults.  I  have  bespoken  fifty 
copies  for  you.  .  .  These  fifty  copies  will  be 
paid  for  out  of  my  avails  for  the  book.  .  ." 
On  May  7,  he  writes  to  Bridge :  "  I  send  the 
Journals  as  requested,  and  heartily  wish  that  I 
could  afford  to  come  myself." 

Evert  A.  Duyckinck  of  New  York,  who  had 
acted  for  Hawthorne  in  the  negotiations  with 
Wiley  &  Putnam,  writes  to  Hawthorne  on 
October  2,  1845 :  "  The  Journal  of  the  Cruiser 
has  just  gone  to  a  second  edition  of  one  thou- 
sand copies,  the  first,  I  believe,  having  been  two 
thousand." 

This    statement    probably    accounts    for    the 
changes  on  the  copyright  page  noted  above. 
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20.  Mosses  |  From  |  An  Old  Manse.  | 
By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  In  Two 
Parts.  |  Part  I.  New  York:  Wiley 
And  Putnam.  |  1846. 

Duodecimo.  Part  I:  [5],  207  pp.  Part 
II:  [5],  211  pp. 

Published  in  paper  wrappers  as  No.  XVII 
and  No.  XVIII  of  Wiley  And  Putnam's 
Library  of  American  Books.  Also  in 
stamped  cloth,  both  numbers  in  one 
volume. 

On  verso  of  each  title-page,  at  lower  left 
and  right  corners,  respectively,  are  the 
names  of  the  printer,  R.  Craighead's 
Power  Press,  112  Fulton  Street,  and  stere- 
otyper,  T.  B.  Smith,  Stereotyper,  216  Wil- 
liam Street. 

Later  issues  or  editions  of  the  same  date  omit 
the  name  of  either  the  printer  or  stereotyper, 
or  both,  and  some  copies  have  the  name  of  an- 
other than  the  regular  printer  of  the  series. 

The  paper  wrappers  for  these  later  editions 
were  reprinted,  with  the  titles  on  the  backs  re- 
set in  larger  type,  and  several  titles  added  to 
the  list  of  books  printed  on  the  back  covers  of 
each  part. 

The  publication  of  a  collection  of  tales  was 
suggested  by  Duyckinck,  and  on  April  7,  1845, 
Hawthorne  replied :  "  Messrs.  Wiley  &  Put- 
nam's proposal,  in  reference  to  the  collection 
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THE   WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

of  tales,  seems  very  liberal,  and  I  shall  be  glad 
to  take  advantage  of  them,  so  soon  as  I  find 
inward  and  outward  quietude  enough  to  write 
a  couple  of  new  stories.  Of  old  tales,  I  would 
suggest  the  following  .  .  ." 

After  many  months  he  writes  to  Bridge,  on 
February  21,  1846:  "Wiley  &  Putnam  are  going 
to  publish  two  volumes  of  my  Tales  instead  of 
one,"  and  on  the  following  day  to  Duyckinck : 
"At  last  I  send  you  the  copy  for  Part  second 
of  the  proposed  collection;  I  hope,  and  fully 
believe,  that  it  will  very  soon  be  followed  by 
the  contents  of  Part  first.  .  .  I  have  bestowed 
much  and  solemn  consideration  upon  the  title 
of  the  book.  '  Wall-Flowers  from  an  Old  Ab- 
bey'  occurred  to  me, — but  it  is  too  fine.  'Moss 
and  Lichens  from  an  Old  Parsonage': — that 
does  not  go  off  trippingly  enough.  '  Mosses 
from  an  Old  Manse '  suits  me  rather  better ;  and 
if  my  wife  agrees  with  me,  so  shall  the  book  be 
christened.  I  will  tell  you  in  the  postscript.  All 
these  titles,  you  will  perceive,  refer  to  an  old 
Owl's  Nest  at  Concord,  where  all  but  three  or 
four  of  the  tales  were  written,  and  to  which 
the  introductory  article  will  refer.  .  ." 

"  P.  S.  We  decide  on  '  Mosses  from  an  Old 
Manse.' " 

On  April  18,  1846 :  "  I  send  you  the  initial  ar- 
ticle promised  so  many  thousand  years  ago.  .  .  . 
All  the  remaining  contents  of  the  volume  are 
enclosed,  except  the  Procession  of  Life,  which 
is  so  inaccurately  printed  that  I  must  write  out 
a  new  copy.  .  .  ."  On  the  outside  of  the  letter 
he  adds :  "  P.  S.  I  have  sent  the  Procession  of 
Life,  so  that  you  now  have  all." 

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By  letter  of  May  29,  1846,  he  asks :  "  When  is 
the  book  to  be  issued?"  And  on  June  10:  "I 
should  like  one  dozen  copies  in  cloth — the  rest 
in  paper.  The  specimen  copy  came  safe  to 
hand." 


21.  The  Scarlet  Letter,  |  A  Romance. 
|  By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  Bos- 
ton: |  Ticknor,  Reed,  And  Fields.  | 
MDCCCL. 

Duodecimo,     iv,  322  pp. 
Copyrighted,  1850. 

On  verso  of  title-page:  Cambridge:  Met- 
calf  And  Company,  Printers  To  The  Uni- 
versity. 4  pp.  advertisements  in  front. 

James  T.  Fields,  in  his  remembrance  of  Haw- 
thorne, tells  of  a  visit  to  Salem  to  see  the  author 
in  the  winter  of  1849  after  he  had  been  super- 
seded at  the  Custom  House.  "  We  fell  into  talk- 
ing about  his  future  prospects,  and  he  was,  as  I 
feared  I  should  find  him,  in  a  very  despondent 
mood.  '  Now/  said  I,  '  is  the  time  for  you  to 
publish,  for  I  know  during  these  years  in  Salem 
you  must  have  got  something  ready  for  the 
press.  .  .'  'Nonsense/  said  he.  'What  heart  had 
I  to  write  anything,  when  my  publishers  (M. 
and  Company)  have  been  so  many  years  trying 
to  sell  a  small  edition  of  the  Twice  Told  Tales?' 
I  still  pressed  upon  him  the  good  chances  he 
would  have  now  with  something  new.  '  Who 
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THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

would  risk  publishing  a  book  for  me,  the  most 
unpopular  writer  in  America?'  'I  would/  said 
I,  '  and  would  start  with  an  edition  of  two  thou- 
sand copies  on  anything  you  write.'  '  What 
madness  ! '  he  exclaimed.  '  Your  friendship  for 
me  gets  the  better  of  your  judgment.  No,  no/ 
he  continued ;  '  I  have  no  money  to  indemnify 
a  publisher's  losses  on  my  account.'  I  remem- 
ber that  I  pressed  him  to  reveal  to  me  what  he 
had  been  writing.  He  shook  his  head  and  gave 
me  to  understand  he  had  produced  nothing.  At 
that  moment  I  caught  sight  of  a  bureau  or  a 
set  of  drawers  near  where  we  were  sitting;  im- 
mediately it  occurred  to  me  that  hidden  away 
somewhere  in  that  article  of  furniture  was  a 
story  or  stories  by  the  author  of  the  Twice 
Told  Tales,  and  I  became  so  positive  of  it  that 
I  charged  him  vehemently  with  the  fact.  He 
seemed  surprised,  I  thought,  but  shook  his  head 
again ;  and  I  rose  to  take  my  leave,  begging  him 
not  to  come  into  the  cold  entry.  .  .  I  was  hurry- 
ing down-stairs  when  he  called  after  me  from 
the  chamber,  asking  me  to  stop  a  moment ;  then 
quickly  stepping  into  the  entry  with  a  roll  of 
manuscript  in  his  hands,  he  said :  '  How  in 
Heaven's  name  did  you  know  this  thing  was 
there?  As  you  have  found  me  out,  take  what 
I  have  written,  and  tell  me,  after  you  get  home 
and  have  time  to  read  it,  if  it  is  good  for  any- 
thing. It  is  either  very  good  or  very  bad, — I 
don't  know  which.'  On  my  way  up  to  Boston 
I  read  the  germ  of  The  Scarlet  Letter ;  before 
I  slept  that  night  I  wrote  him  a  note  all  aglow 
with  admiration  of  the  marvelous  story  he  had 
put  into  my  hands,  and  told  him  that  I  would 

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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

come  again  to  Salem  the  next  day  and  arrange 
for  its  publication.  .  ." 

This  arrangement  was  made,  and  on  January 
8,  1850,  Hawthorne  wrote :  "  I  will  send  the  copy 
early  next  week ;  perhaps  as  soon  as  Monday ; 
certainly  before  Thursday.  I  cannot  think  of 
a  name  for  the  book,  and  fear  it  must  go  to 
press  without  one.  It  has  already  cost  me  more 
perplexity  than  any  fifty  pages  of  the  volume." 

It  was  Hawthorne's  first  intention  to  make 
the  romance  one  of  a  volume  of  several  short 
stories,  to  be  called  Old  Time  Legends:  Together 
with  Sketches,  Experimental  and  Ideal;  but 
Fields  persuaded  him  to  elaborate  the  story  and 
publish  it  as  a  separate  work.  "  In  this  latter 
event,"  writes  Hawthorne  to  Fields,  "  it  appears 
to  me  that  the  only  proper  title  for  the  book 
would  be  The  Scarlet  Letter,  for  the  Custom 
House  is  merely  an  introductory.  .  .  If  The 
Scarlet  Letter  is  to  be  the  title,  would  it  not  be 
well  to  print  it  on  the  title-page  in  red  ink  ?  .  .  ." 

On  February  4,  1850,  Hawthorne  wrote  to 
Horatio  Bridge :  "  I  finished  my  book  only  yes- 
terday, one  end  being  in  press  in  Boston,  while 
the  other  was  in  my  head  here  in  Salem;  so 
that,  as  you  see,  the  story  is  at  least  fourteen 
miles  long.  .  .  My  book,  the  publisher  tells  me, 
will  not  be  out  before  April.  He  speaks  of  it 
in  tremendous  terms  of  approbation.  So  does 
Mrs.  Hawthorne,  to  whom  I  read  the  conclu- 
sion last  night.  .  .  Judging  from  its  effect  on 
her  and  the  publisher,  I  may  calculate  on  what 
bowlers  call  a  ten-strike.  Yet  I  do  not  make 
any  such  calculations.  .  ." 

The  book,  however,  appeared  earlier,  about 
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March  16,  for  under  that  date  Longfellow  en- 
ters in  his  Journal :  "  In  town.  Hawthorne's 
Scarlet  Letter  is  just  published, — a  most  tragic 
tragedy.  Success  to  the  book !  " 

Later,  on  April  13,  Hawthorne  writes  to 
Bridge :  "  I  am  glad  you  like  The  Scarlet  Let- 
ter. .  .  This  book  has  been  successful :  The  first 
edition  having  been  exhausted  in  ten  days,  and 
the  second  (five  thousand  copies  in  all)  prom- 
ising to  go  off  rapidly.  .  ." 

The  second  edition  appeared  with  a  preface 
dated  Mar.  30,  1850,  and  a  slightly  different  font 
of  type  was  used  in  imprinting  the  red-letter 
line  on  the  title-page.  Besides  this  preface  there 
are  numerous  changes,  especially  in  words,  and 
the  printer's  imprint  on  the  verso  of  title-page 
was  reset. 

The  popularity  of  the  book  having  been  es- 
tablished, it  was  entirely  reset  and  electrotyped, 
numbering  307  pages,  and  issued  with  the  same 
date. 


22.  True  Stories  |  From  |  History  and 
Biography.  |  By  |  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. |  Boston:  |  Ticknor,  Reed, 
and  Fields.  MDCCCLL 

Duodecimo.    Frontispiece,  [viii],  335  pp., 
3  woodcut  plates. 

Copyrighted     in      1850.       Published     in 
stamped  cloth,  gilt  back.    4  pp.  publishers' 
advertisements  at  end. 
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On     verso     of     title-page :     Cambridge : 
Printed  By  Bolles  And  Houghton. 

This  volume  comprises  the  three  juvenile 
books  Grandfather's  Chair,  Famous  Old  Peo- 
ple, and  Liberty  Tree,  grouped  as  The  Whole 
History  of  Grandfather's  Chair.  Complete  in 
Three  Parts.  Parti:  pp.  [i]-;8;  Part  II:  [79]- 
158;  Part  III:  [1593-244;  with  the  Biograph- 
ical Stories  added,  pp.  [245] -335. 

In  the  first  issues  the  signature-mark  (a*) 
at  the  foot  of  page  [iii]  appears  under  and  to 
the  left  of  the  letter  "a"  of  the  last  line.  A 
later  issue  shows  this  signature-mark  placed 
further  to  the  right,  the  type  of  the  second  from 
the  last  line  on  this  page  having  been  respaced 
for  the  introduction  of  a  comma  (,)  after  the 
word  "  way ".  A  further  correction  on  page  iv 
appears  in  the  placing  of  a  comma  (,)  in  line 
18  after  the  word  "  which." 

A  later  edition  was  published  bearing  the 
same  date,  but  the  copyright  is  dated  1851 ;  and 
the  imprint  on  verso  of  title-page  is  changed  to, 
T  hurst  on,  Torrey,  And  Emerson,  Printers.  It 
was  entirely  reset,  numbering  343  pp. 

The  plates,  attractive  in  design  and  execution, 
are  signed  by  Billings  and  W.  Roberts. 

23.  Twice-Told  Tales.  By  |  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne.  |  In  Two  Volumes  | 
Vol.  I.  |  A  New  Edition.  Boston : 
|  Ticknor,  Reed,  And  Fields.  |  MD- 
CCCLI. 

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THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Duodecimo.    Two  volumes. 

Vol.   I:   Frontispiece    (portrait),   287  pp. 

Vol.  II :  288  pp. 

Preface  dated,  Lenox,  January  n,   1851; 

copyrighted,  1851.     Published  in  stamped 

cloth.    4  pp.  publishers'  advertisements  in 

front  of  Vol.  I. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Boston :  Thurston, 

Torrey,  &  Emerson,  Printers,  Devonshire 

Street. 

This  new  edition  is  a  reissue,  by  Hawthorne's 
established  publishers,  of  the  two  volumes  of 
1842,  but  with  the  portrait  and  eight-page  pref- 
ace added,  and  many  changes  in  punctuation. 

Writing  to  his  sister  on  March  u,  1850,  Haw- 
thorne says:  "All  the  copies  to  which  I  am 
entitled  (only  six)  of  the  new  edition  of  Twice 
Told  Tales  have  been  sent  here.  If  possible, 
I  will  keep  one  for  you  till  I  come  to  Salem 
.  .  .  some  time  in  June." 

The  portrait,  a  bust  turned  to  left,  looking 
front,  bears  the  inscription :  "  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne," "  Engraved  By  T.  Phillibrown,  From 
A  Painting  By  C.  G.  Thompson."  "Boston, 
Ticknor,  Reed  &  Fields,  1851." 


24.    The  House  |  Of  |  The  Seven  Gables, 
|  A  Romance.  |  By  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne.  |  Boston:   |  Ticknor,  Reed, 
And  Fields.  |  MDCCCLI. 
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THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Duodecimo,    vi,  [7]— 344  pp. 
Preface  dated,  Lenox,  January  27,   1851. 
Published  in  stamped  cloth.    4  pp.  adver- 
tisements in  front. 

On   verso   of   title-page:  Stereotyped   by 
Hobart  &  Robbins,  Boston. 

From  Lenox  Hawthorne  writes  to  Fields  on 
October  I,  1850:  "I  sha'n't  have  the  new  story 
ready  by  November,  for  I  am  never  good  for 
anything  in  the  literary  way  till  after  the  first 
autumnal  frost,  which  has  somewhat  such  an 
effect  on  my  imagination  that  it  does  on  the 
foliage  here  about  me, — multiplying  and  bright- 
ening its  hues ;  though  they  are  likely  to  be 
sober  and  shabby  enough  after  all.  I  am  begin- 
ning to  puzzle  myself  about  a  title  for  the  book. 
The  scene  of  it  is  in  one  of  those  old  projecting- 
storied  houses,  familiar  to  my  eye  in  Salem; 
and  the  story,  horrible  to  say,  is  a  little  less 
than  two  hundred  years  long;  though  all  but 
thirty  or  forty  pages  of  it  refer  to  the  present 
time.  I  think  of  such  titles  as  The  House  of 
the  Seven  Gables,  there  being  that  number  of 
gable-ends  to  the  old  shanty;  or,  The  Seven- 
Gabled  House;  or  simply,  The  Seven  Gables. 
Tell  me  how  these  strike  you.  It  appears  to 
me  that  the  latter  is  rather  the  best,  and  has 
the  great  advantage  that  it  would  puzzle  the 
Devil  to  tell  what  it  means." 

A  month  later  Hawthorne  suggested  "  The 
Old  Pyncheon  House:  A  Romance;  The  Old 
Pyncheon  Family;  or,  The  House  of  the 
Seven  Gables;  A  Romance; — choose  between 
them.  .  ." 

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Then  on  the  I2th  of  January,  1851,  he  writes: 
"  My  House  of  the  Seven  Gables  is,  so  to  speak, 
finished ;  only  I  am  hammering  away  a  little 
on  the  roof,  and  doing  up  a  few  odd  jobs,  that 
were  left  incomplete  ..."  and  on  the  27th : 
"  I  intend  to  put  The  House  of  the  Seven  Ga- 
bles into  the  expressman's  hands  to-day;  so 
that,  if  you  do  not  soon  receive  it,  you  may  con- 
clude that  it  has  miscarried;  in  which  case,  I 
shall  not  consent  to  the  universe  existing  a 
moment  longer.  I  have  no  copy  of  it,  except 
the  wildest  scribble  of  a  first  draught,  so  that 
it  could  never  be  restored.  It  has  met  with  ex- 
traordinary success  from  that  portion  of  the 
public  to  whose  judgment  it  has  been  submitted, 
viz.  from  my  wife." 

During  the  next  few  weeks  the  proofs  were 
passing  between  Boston  and  Lenox,  and  in  writ- 
ing to  his  sister  Elizabeth  on  March  n,  Haw- 
thorne states :  "  My  book  will  be  out  about  the 
20th,  and  I  have  directed  two  copies  to  be  sent. 
.  .  The  book,  I  think,  has  more  merit  than  The 
Scarlet  Letter;  but  it  will  hardly  make  so  much 
noise  as  that." 

25.  A  |  Wonder-Book  |  For  |  Girls  And 
Boys.  By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 
With  Engravings  By  Baker  From 
Designs  By  Billings.  |  Boston: 
Ticknor,  Reed,  And  Fields.  |  MD- 
CCCLII. 

Sextodecimo.      Frontispiece,      vi,     [7]  — 
256  pp.    6  woodcut  plates. 
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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Preface  dated,  Lenox,  July  I5th,  1851 ;  copy- 
righted, 1851.  Published  in  stamped  cloth. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  Stereotyped  by 
Hobart  &  Robbins,  Boston. 

This  work  was  undertaken  soon  after  the 
publication  of  The  House  of  the  Seven  Gables, 
for  on  May  23,  1851,  he  writes  to  Fields :  "  I 
mean  to  write,  within  six  weeks  or  two  months 
next  ensuing,  a  book  of  stories  made  up  of  clas- 
sical myths.  The  subjects  are:  The  Story  of 
Midas,  with  his  Golden  Touch,  Pandora's 
Box,  The  Adventure  of  Hercules  in  quest  of 
the  Golden  Apples,  Bellerophon  and  the  Chi- 
mera, Baucis  and  Philemon,  Perseus  and  Me- 
dusa ;  these,  I  think,  will  be  enough  to  make  up 
a  volume.  As  a  framework,  I  shall  have  a 
young  college  student  telling  these  stories  to  his 
cousins  and  brothers  and  sisters,  during  his  va- 
cations, sometimes  at  the  fireside,  sometimes  in 
the  woods  and  dells.  .  .  I  give  you  these  hints 
of  my  plan,  because  you  will  perhaps  think  it 
advisable  to  employ  Billings  to  prepare  some 
illustrations.  There  is  a  good  scope  in  the 
above  subjects  for  fanciful  designs.  Bellero- 
phon and  the  Chimera,  for  instance:  the  Chi- 
mera a  fantastic  monster  with  three  heads,  and 
Bellerophon  fighting  him,  mounted  on  Pegasus; 
Pandora  opening  the  box ;  Hercules  talking 
with  Atlas,  an  enormous  giant  who  holds  the 
sky  on  his  shoulders,  or  sailing  across  the  sea 
in  an  immense  bowl;  Perseus  transforming  a 
king  and  all  his  subjects  to  stone,  by  exhibiting 
the  Gorgon's  head.  .  .  The  book,  if  it  comes 

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THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

out  of  my  mind  as  I  see  it  now,  ought  to  have 
a  pretty  wide  success  amongst  young  people; 
and,  of  course,  I  shall  purge  out  all  the  old 
heathen  wickedness,  and  put  in  a  moral  wher- 
ever practicable.  For  a  title  how  would  this 
do:  A  Wonder-Book  for  Girls  and  Boys;  or, 
The  Wonder-Book  of  Old  Stories f  I  prefer 
the  former.  Or,  Myths  Modernized  for  my 
Children;  that  won't  do." 

To  Bridge  Hawthorne  writes  on  October  n, 
1851:  "My  Wonder-Book  I  suppose  will  be  out 
soon.  I  do  not  know  your  direction  in  Boston 
.  .  .  but  will  tell  the  publishers  to  hand  you  one 
when  called  for." 

It  was  published  in  November  in  cloth,  with 
the  title  on  the  back  in  gilt,  between  two  small 
gilt  ornaments,  and  with  the  same  blind  stamped 
designs  on  the  sides  as  were  used  for  the  True 
Stories,  previously  published. 

A  later  edition  of  the  Wonder-Book  of  the 
same  date  (1852)  appeared,  when  the  Tangle- 
wood  Tales  was  published  in  1853,  with  an  elab- 
orate gilt  design  around  the  title  on  the  back 
such  as  was  used  for  the  Tanglewood  Tales, 
making  companion  volumes,  for  the  latter  was 
also  called  "A  Second  Wonder-Book."  In  this 
later  edition  the  stamped  design  on  the  sides  was 
also  slightly  changed  to  conform  to  that  on  the 
Tanglewood  Tales. 

Billings,  who  had  had  a  part  in  the  illustra- 
tion of  True  Stories,  1851,  was  employed  to  il- 
lustrate the  books,  and  seems  to  have  brought  to 
the  work  a  very  ready  appreciation  of  the  sub- 
jects. His  designs,  gracefully  executed,  add 
materially  to  the  charm  of  the  little  volume. 

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26.  The      Snow-Image,   |  And  |  Other 
Twice-Told  Tales.     By     Nathaniel 
Hawthorne.    |    Boston:    |    Ticknor, 
Reed,  And  Fields.     MDCCCLII. 

Duodecimo.    273  pp. 

Preface    dated,    Lenox,    November     ist, 

1851 ;  copyrighted,    1851.      Published    in 

stamped  cloth. 

On   verso   of   title-page :  Stereotyped   by 

Hobart  &  Robbins,  Boston. 

This  consists  of  a  new  collection  of  tales  and 
sketches,  all  of  which  had  been  contributed  to 
annuals  and  magazines,  and  of  this  proposed 
publication  Hawthorne  makes  mention  in  a  let- 
ter to  Bridge,  dated  October  11,  1851,  saying:  "  I 
have  also  a  new  volume  of  Twice  Told  Tales  in 
press  and  a  new  romance  in  futurity  "  (Blithe- 
dale  Romance). 

The  book  appeared  with  a  dedicatory  preface 
to  Horatio  Bridge,  in  which  the  author  gives 
some  pleasant  glimpses  of  their  college  life  and 
long  intimacy,  and  was  published  simultaneously 
in  London  and  in  Boston  early  in  December. 
The  London  issue  bears  the  date  of  1851,  while 
the  Boston  edition  is  dated  1852,  in  accordance 
with  the  American  practice  of  post-dating  books 
brought  out  at  the  end  of  a  year. 

27.  The  |   Blithedale  Romance.    |   By   | 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne.      Boston:   | 

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Ticknor,  Reed,  And  Fields.  |  MD- 
CCCLII. 

Duodecimo,     viii,   [9]— 288  pp. 

Preface    dated,    Concord    (Mass.),    May, 

1852;  copyrighted,    1852.      Published    in 

stamped  cloth.     4  pp.  advertisements  in 

front. 

On   verso   of   title-page :  Stereotyped   by 

Hobart  &  Robbins,  Boston. 

This  romance  was  commenced  before  Haw- 
thorne left  Lenox,  and  finished  in  his  new  house, 
"  The  Wayside,"  at  Concord,  during  the  spring 
of  1852,  and  in  a  letter  to  William  D.  Ticknor 
on  July  13  he  refers  to  the  book  as  to  be  "  issued 
to-morrow." 

28.  Life  |  Of  |  Franklin  Pierce.  |  By  | 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  Boston:  | 
Ticknor,  Reed,  And  Fields.  MD- 
CCCLII. 

Duodecimo.  Frontispiece  (portrait),  144 
pp. 

Preface  dated,  Concord,  (Mass.,)  August 
27,  1852;  copyrighted,  1852.  Published 
in  stamped  cloth  and  paper.  4  pp.  of  ad- 
vertisements in  front. 

On   verso   of   title-page:  Stereotyped   At 
The  Boston  Stereotype  Foundry. 
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In  a  letter  from  Concord  on  June  17,  1852, 
Hawthorne  writes  to  Fields,  who  was  in  Lon- 
don :  "  I  meant  to  have  written  another  Wonder- 
Book  this  summer,  but  another  task  has  unex- 
pectedly intervened.  General  Pierce  of  New 
Hampshire,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  the 
presidency,  was  a  college  friend  of  mine,  as  you 
know,  and  we  have  been  intimate  through  life. 
He  wishes  me  to  write  his  biography,  and  I 
have  consented  to  do  so;  somewhat  reluctantly, 
however,  for  Pierce  has  now  reached  that  al- 
titude when  a  man,  careful  of  his  personal  dig- 
nity, will  begin  to  think  of  cutting  his  acquain- 
tance. But  I  seek  nothing  from  him,  and  there- 
fore need  not  be  ashamed  to  tell  the  truth  of  an 
old  friend.  .  ." 

The  book  was  written  during  the  next  two 
months  and  issued  with  a  preface  dated  August 
27th.  Soon  after  its  publication  Hawthorne 
writes  to  Bridge  at  some  length,  explaining  his 
part  in  this  publication,  and  says :  "  I  did  not 
send  you  the  Life  of  Pierce,  not  considering  it 
fairly  one  of  my  literary  productions.  I  was 
terribly  reluctant  to  undertake  this  work,  and 
tried  to  persuade  Pierce — both  by  letter  and  viva 
voce — that  I  could  not  perform  it  so  well  as 
many  others ;  but  he  thought  differently ;  and,  of 
course,  after  a  friendship  of  thirty  years,  it  was 
impossible  to  refuse  my  best  efforts  in  his  be- 
half at  this — the  great  pinch  of  his  life.  Before 
undertaking  it,  I  made  an  inward  resolution  that 
I  would  accept  no  office  from  him;  but,  to  say 
the  truth,  I  doubt  whether  it  would  not  be 
rather  folly  than  heroism  to  adhere  to  this 
purpose.  .  .  There  are  scores  of  men  in  the 
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country  brighter  than  he  is;  but  Frank  has  the 
directing  mind,  and  will  move  them  about  like 
pawns  on  a  chessboard,  and  turn  all  their  abili- 
ties to  better  purpose  than  they  themselves 
could  do.  Such  is  my  idea  of  him  after  many 
an  hour  of  reflection  on  his  character  while 
making  the  best  of  his  biography.  .  .  I  love  him, 
and,  oddly  enough,  there  is  a  kind  of  pitying 
sentiment  mixed  up  with  my  affection  for  him 
just  now." 

The  portrait  bears  the  inscription:  "  Yr 
friend  &  Servt  Frank.  Pierce"  "Boston; 
Ticknor,  Reed  &  Fields,  1852."  "Engraved  by 
C.  E.  Wagstaff  &  J.  Andrews  from  a  Portrait  by 
A.  Tenney  N.  H."  "  C.  E.  Wagstaff  &  J.  An- 
drews Print1".5  " 


Time's  Portraiture.  |  Being  |  The 
Carrier's  Address  To  The  Patrons 
|  Of  The  |  Salem  Gazette,  And 
Essex  County  Mercury.  |  [Printer's 
ornament]  For  The  First  Of  Jan- 
uary, |  1853.  [1852.] 

Octavo.    8  pp. 
Issued  as  a  leaflet. 

This  address  first  appeared  anonymously,  as 
a  broadside,  on  January  I,  1838,  but  in  the  pe- 
riod of  Hawthorne's  great  fame,  soon  after  the 
publication  of  the  Scarlet  Letter,  House  of  the 
Seven  Gables,  Wonder-Book,  Snow-Image, 

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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Blithedale  Romance,  and  Life  of  Franklin 
Pierce,  it  was  reissued  in  this  form  with  a 
bracketed  note  on  page  4,  signed,  "  Printers 
Devil,"  which  practically  disclosed  the  author- 
ship and  reads :  "  An  author  has  a  right  to  say 
what  he  will,  about  himself;  but  we  guess  he  '11 
find  that  Time  will  have  a  good  deal  to  say 
about  him — and  more  fifty  years  hence  than 
now." 

In  The  Christmas  Locket,  Boston,  1870,  an  un- 
signed article  appeared  on  Father  Time,  written 
by  John  J.  Babson,  disclosing  the  authorship 
of  this  address,  presumably  for  the  first  time, 
and  continues :  "  but  Time's  Portraiture,  which 
is  herewith  presented  to  the  readers  of  The 
Christmas  Locket,  was  not  reprinted  by  its  au- 
thor, and  is  not  to  be  found  in  any  edition  of  his 
writings." 

It  was  afterwards  collected  in  a  posthumous 
volume  of  the  author's  works  entitled  Dolliver's 
Romance  and  other  Pieces,  Boston,  1876. 


30.  Tanglewood  Tales,  |  For  |  Girls 
And  Boys ;  Being  A  Second  Won- 
der-Book. |  By  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. With  Fine  Illustrations.  | 
Boston:  |  Ticknor,  Reed,  And 
Fields.  |  MDCCCLIII. 

Sexto-decimo.     Engraved  title,  336  pp.    6 
plates. 

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Copyrighted,  1853.     Published  in  stamped 
cloth.    8  pp.  of  advertisements  in  front. 
On   verso   of   title-page :  Stereotyped   At 
The  Boston  Stereotype  Foundry. 

The  engraved  title-page,  Tanglewood  Tales: 
Another  Wonder-Book,  and  the  plates  are 
signed,  "Baker — Smith — Andrews."  They  all 
are  woodcuts.  Little  is  known  of  Baker.  Heze- 
kiah  Wright  Smith  (b.  1828)  was  a  Scotch- 
man, who  came  to  New  York  and  studied  with 
Doney,  and  in  1850  went  to  Boston,  where  he 
was  employed  by  book-publishers,  especially 
Ticknor  and  Fields.  Joseph  Andrews  (b.  1807- 
1873),  noted  as  a  line  engraver,  was  employed 
also  by  publishers. 

Julian  Hawthorne  states :  "  He  produced — in 
compliance  with  many  entreaties  from  young 
people,  and  also,  no  doubt,  because  he  enjoyed 
the  work — a  second  volume  .of  '  Wonder '  sto- 
ries, under  the  title  of  Tanglewood  Tales,"  and 
then  gives  a  letter  from  a  young  boy  urging  him 
to  this  congenial  task,  dated  December  14,  1851 : 
"  I  was  so  much  delighted  with  your  Wonder- 
Book  that  I  wish  you  would  write  another  like 
it.  I  hope  you  are  having  a  pleasant  time  at 
Lenox.  I  like  the  story  of  the  Chimaera,  and  so 
I  did  like  the  other  stories." 

Fields  also  states  that  "  The  composition  of 
the  Tanglewood  Tales  gave  him  pleasant  em- 
ployment, and  all  his  letters,  during  the  period 
he  was  writing  them,  overflow  with  evidences 
of  his  felicitous  mood.  He  requests  that  Bil- 
lings should  pay  especial  attention  to  the  draw- 


THE    WORKS   OF   NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

ings,  and  is  anxious  that  the  porch  of  Tangle- 
wood  should  be  well  supplied  with  shrubbery. . ." 

On  March  16,  1853,  Hawthorne  writes  to 
Richard  Henry  Stoddard :  "  I  have  finished  the 
Tanglewood  Tales,  and  they  will  make  a  volume 
about  the  size  of  the  Wonder-Book,  consisting 
of  six  myths— Minotaur,  Golden  Fleece,  Story 
of  Proserpine,  etc.,  etc.,  etc.,  done  up  in  excel- 
lent style,  purified  from  all  immoral  stain,  recre- 
ated good  as  new,  or  better — and  fully  equal,  in 
every  way,  to  '  Mother  Goose/  I  never  did 
anything  so  good  as  those  old  baby-stories." 

The  book  appeared  during  the  summer  of 
1853,  the  first  issue  having  an  imprint  of  the 
stereotyper  on  the  verso  of  title-page,  while  the 
later  issues  had  the  imprint  of  the  printer  above 
that  of  the  stereotyper.  These  later  issues  were 
printed  on  thinner  paper  and  are  also  deter- 
mined by  the  later  date  (September,  1853)  °f  the 
publishers'  advertisements  bound  in  the  book,  in 
which  the  price  of  this  book  is  stated  as  88  cents, 
whereas  in  the  publishers'  advertisements  in  the 
first  issue,  dated  August,  1853,  the  book  is  an- 
nounced as  "just  out"  without  any  price. 


31.  Mosses  From  An  Old  Manse.  | 
By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  |  In 
Two  Volumes.  |  Vol.  I.  |  New  Edi- 
tion, |  Carefully  Revised  By  The 
Author.  |  Boston:  |  Ticknor  And 
Fields.  |  MDCCCLIV. 
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Duodecimo.    Two  volumes. 

Vol.  1 :  286  pp.    Vol.  II :  297  pp. 

Copyrighted,  1854.     Published  in  stamped 

cloth. 

On  the  verso  of  title-page  :  Stereotyped  At 

The  Boston  Stereotype  Foundry. 

To  this  revised  edition  three  sketches  were 
added :  Feathertop,  A  Moralized  Legend  in  the 
first  volume;  Passages  From  A  Relinquished 
Work  and  Sketches  From  Memory  in  the  sec- 
ond volume. 

From  his  consular  office  in  Liverpool  Haw- 
thorne wrote  to  Fields  on  April  13,  1854  •  "  I 
am  very  glad  that  the  Mosses  have  come  into 
the  hands  of  our  firm;  and  I  return  the  copy 
sent  me,  after  a  careful  revision.  When  I  wrote 
those  dreamy  sketches,  I  little  thought  that  I 
should  ever  preface  an  edition  for  the  press 
amidst  the  bustling  life  of  a  Liverpool  consulate 
...  I  am  a  good  deal  changed  since  those  times ; 
and,  to  tell  you  the  truth,  my  past  self  is 
not  very  much  to  my  taste,  as  I  see  myself 
in  this  book.  Yet  certainly  there  is  more  in  it 
than  the  public  generally  gave  me  credit  for  at 
the  time  it  was  written.  But  I  don't  think  my- 
self worthy  of  very  much  more  credit  than  I 
got.  .  ." 

In  a  letter  to  Ticknor  shortly  afterwards  Haw- 
thorne mentions  a  few  sketches  which  had  not 
been  collected,  and  requested  that  Fields  make 
a  selection  from  these  to  be  included  in  the  new 
edition  of  the  Mosses. 

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32.  The  Marble  Faun:  Or,  the  | 
Romance  Of  Monte  Beni.  |  By  | 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  Author  Of 
"The  Scarlet  Letter/'  Etc.,  Etc. 
In  Two  Volumes.  |  Vol.  I.  |  Boston : 
|  Ticknor  And  Fields.  |  MDCCCLX. 

Duodecimo.    Two  volumes. 
Vol.  1 :  283  pp.    Vol.  II :  284  pp. 
Preface  dated,  Leamington,  December  15, 
1859;  copyrighted,    1860.      Published    in 
stamped    cloth.      16    pp.    publishers'    ad- 
vertisements at  end  of  Vol.  I. 
On  verso  of  title-page:  Riverside,   Cam- 
bridge: Stereotyped  And  Printed  By  H. 
O.  Houghton  And  Company. 

Hawthorne,  being  in  England,  directed  the 
work  of  this  publication  in  London,  arrange- 
ments having  been  made  for  its  simultaneous 
issue  in  America  by  his  Boston  publishers. 

The  London  issue  appeared  in  three  volumes, 
duodecimo,  with  the  following  title : 

Transformation :  |  or  the  |  Romance  of  Monte 
Beni.  |  By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne  |  London:  | 
Smith,  Elder  and  Co.  |  MDCCCLX. 

This  romance  was  begun  and  the  first  sketch 
written  while  Hawthorne  was  living  in  Italy,  in 
a  villa  on  the  hill  of  Montaiito,  near  Florence, 

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THE    WORKS    OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

where  he  had  gone  with  his  family  in  August  of 
1858,  but  it  was  not  finished  until  the  latter  part 
of  the  following  year,  after  he  had  returned 
to  England. 

In  a  letter  of  September  3,  1858,  to  Fields, 
from  Florence,  he  wrote :  "  Speaking  of  ro- 
mances, I  have  planned  two,  one  or  both  of 
which  I  could  have  ready  for  the  press  in  a 
few  months  if  I  were  either  in  England  or 
America.  But  I  find  this  Italian  atmosphere 
not  favorable  to  the  close  toil  of  composition, 
although  it  is  a  very  good  air  to  dream  in.  I 
must  breathe  the  fogs  of  old  England  or  the 
east  winds  of  Massachusetts,  in  order  to  put 
me  into  working  trim." 

Some  months  later  Hawthorne  writes  from 
Rome  that  he  has  "  come  to  close  grips  with  a 
romance  which  I  have  been  trying  to  tear  out  of 
my  mind.  As  for  my  success,  I  can't  say  much ; 
indeed,  I  don't  know  what  to  say  at  all.  I  only 
know  that  I  have  produced  what  seems  to  be  a 
larger  amount  of  scribble  than  either  of  my  for- 
mer romances,  and  that  portions  of  it  interested 
me  a  good  deal  while  I  was  writing  them." 

Then  on  October  10,  1859,  after  returning  to 
England,  and  still  to  Fields :  "  The  romance  is 
almost  finished,  a  great  heap  of  manuscript 
being  already  accumulated,  and  only  a  few 
concluding  chapters  remaining  behind.  If  hard 
pushed,  I  could  have  it  ready  for  the  press  in 
a  fortnight.  .  .  You  ask  for  the  title.  I  have 
not  yet  fixed  upon  one,  but  here  are  some  that 
have  occurred  to  me;  neither  of  them  exactly 
meets  my  idea :  Monte  Beni;  or,  The  Faun.  A 
Romance.  The  Romance  of  a  Faun.  The  Faun  of 

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Monte  Beni  Monte  Beni:  a  Romance.  Miriam: 
a  Romance.  Hilda:  a  Romance.  Donatella:  a 
Romance.  The  Faun:  a  Romance.  Marble  and 
Man:  a  Romance.  When  you  have  read  the 
work  (which  I  especially  wish  you  to  do  before 
it  goes  to  press),  you  will  be  able  to  select  one 
of  them,  or  imagine  something  better." 

Again  on  November  I7th :  "  I  have  quite  fin- 
ished the  book  (some  time  ago)  and  have  sent 
it  to  Smith  and  Elder,  who  tell  me  it  is  in  the 
printer's  hands,  but  I  have  received  no  proof- 
sheets.  They  wrote  to  request  another  title  in- 
stead of  the  Romance  of  Monte  Beni,  and  I  sent 
them  their  choice  of  a  dozen.  .  ."  and  by  letter 
of  February  n,  1860:  "To  return  to  my  moon- 
shiny  Romance ;  its  fate  will  soon  be  settled,  for 
Smith  and  Elder  mean  to  publish  on  the  28th 
of  this  month.  Poor  Ticknor  will  have  a  tight 
scratch  to  get  his  edition  out  contemporane- 
ously ;  they  have  sent  him  the  third  volume  only 
a  week  ago.  I  think,  however,  there  will  be 
no  danger  of  piracy  in  America.  Perhaps  no- 
body will  think  it  worth  stealing.  .  .  Smith  and 
Elder  persist  in  calling  the  book  Transforma- 
tion, which  gives  one  the  idea  of  Harlequin  in 
a  pantomime;  but  I  have  strictly  enjoined  upon 
Ticknor  to  call  it  The  Marble  Faun;  a  Romance 
of  Monte  Beni." 

After  the  publication  of  The  Marble  Faun 
there  was  general  disappointment  at  what  was 
considered  an  "  inconclusive  conclusion  "  and  a 
call  for  an  "explanation"  of  the  mysteries  of  the 
tale.  One  of  the  first  letters  Hawthorne  re- 
ceived was  from  Henry  Bright,  with  whom  he 
had  formed  a  strong  friendship :  "  I  'm  in  the 
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THE    WORKS   OF   NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

middle  of  Monte  Beni  (why  did  Smith  and 
Elder  transform  it  into  Transformation? — they 
are  rather  given  to  playing  pranks  with  au- 
thor's titles)  and  I  am  delighted  with  it."  And 
later :  "  I  've  finished  the  book,  and  am,  I  think, 
more  angry  at  your  tantalizing  cruelty  than 
either  the  Athenaum  or  Saturday  Review.  I 
want  to  know  a  hundred  things  you  do  not  tell 
me  ...  Of  course  you  '11  say  I  ought  to  guess; 
well,  if  I  guess,  it  is  but  a  guess,  and  I  want 
to  know." 

Hawthorne's  reply  was :  "  Smith  and  Elder 
certainly  do  take  strange  liberties  with  the  titles 
of  books.  I  wanted  to  call  it  The  Marble  Faun, 
but  they  insisted  upon  Transformation,  which 
will  lead  the  reader  to  anticipate  a  sort  of  pan- 
tomime. They  wrote  me  some  days  ago  that  the 
edition  was  nearly  all  sold,  and  that  they  are 
going  to  print  another;  to  which  I  mean  to  ap- 
pend a  few  pages,  in  the  shape  of  a  conversation 
between  Kenyon,  Hilda,  and  the  author,  throw- 
ing some  further  light  on  matters  which  seem 
to  have  been  left  too  much  in  the  dark.  For 
my  own  part,  however,  I  should  prefer  the  book 
as  it  now  stands." 

This  new  edition  soon  appeared  in  both  Eng- 
land and  America  with  a  "  Conclusion  "  added, 
bearing  date  of  March  14,  1860,  making  the 
pages  in  the  last  volume  of  the  American  edi- 
tion 288  and  in  the  English  292. 

Hawthorne  afterwards  said  to  Bright:  "As 
regards  the  last  chapter  of  Transformation  in  the 
second  edition,  don't  read  it ;  it 's  good  for  no- 
thing. The  story  is  n't  meant  to  be  explained ; 
it's  cloudland." 

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33.  Our  Old  Home:  A  Series  Of  Eng- 
lish Sketches.  By  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. |  [Printer's  mark]  Boston:  | 
Ticknor  And  Fields.  |  1863. 

Duodecimo.  [7],  [ix]— xi,  [9]— 398  pp. 
Copyrighted,  1863.  Dedication  "To  A 
Friend/'  dated,  The  Wayside,  July  2, 
1863.  Published  in  stamped  cloth.  I  p. 
advertisements  at  end. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  Riverside,  Cam- 
bridge :  Stereotyped  And  Printed  By  H. 
O.  Houghton. 

This  volume  consists  of  a  collection  of  articles, 
most  of  which  had  recently  appeared  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly,  and  on  the  30th  of  April, 
1863,  Hawthorne  writes  to  Fields :  "  I  send  the 
article  with  which  the  volume  is  to  commence, 
and  you  can  begin  printing  it  whenever  you  like. 
I  could  think  of  no  better  title  than  this,  Our 
Old  Home;  a  Series  of  English  Sketches,  by, 
etc.  .  ." 

As  to  the  dedication,  he  adds  in  a  letter  of 
May  3 :  "  I  am  of  three  minds  about  dedicating 
the  volume.  First,  it  seems  due  to  Frank  Pierce 
(as  he  put  me  into  the  position  where  I  made  all 
those  profound  observations  of  English  scenery, 
life,  and  character)  to  inscribe  it  to  him  .  .  . 
which  also  would  be  very  gratifying  to  my  life- 
long affection  for  him.  .  .  ." 

Fields,  however,  was  doubtful  how  the  public 
would  look  upon  a  compliment  paid  to  the  un- 


THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

popular  ex-President;  but  Hawthorne  carried 
out  his  intentions,  stating  his  reasons  in  a  let- 
ter of  July  18  as  follows :  "  My  long  and  in- 
timate personal  relations  with  Pierce  render  the 
dedication  altogether  proper,  especially  as  re- 
gards this  book,  which  would  have  had  no  exis- 
tence without  his  kindness ;  and  if  he  is  so  ex- 
ceedingly unpopular  that  his  name  is  enough 
to  sink  the  volume,  there  is  so  much  the  more 
need  that  an  old  friend  should  stand  by  him. 
I  cannot,  merely  on  account  of  pecuniary  profit 
or  literary  reputation,  go  back  from  what  I  have 
deliberately  felt  and  thought  it  right  to  do;  and 
if  I  were  to  tear  out  the  dedication,  I  should 
never  look  at  the  volume  again  without  remorse 
and  shame.  .  .  Nevertheless,  I  have  no  fancy 
for  making  myself  a  martyr  when  it  is  honorably 
and  conscientiously  possible  to  avoid  it;  ...  so 
I  have  looked  over  the  concluding  paragraph 
and  have  amended  it  in  such  a  way  that,  while 
doing  what  I  know  to  be  justice  to  my  friend, 
it  contains  not  a  word  that  ought  to  be  objec- 
tionable to  any  set  of  readers.  .  .  ." 

The  book  was  published  early  in  the  autumn 
of  the  year,  and  in  the  first  issue  a  publishers' 
list  is  printed  on  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf  of  the 
last  signature  opposite  page  398.  In  later  issues 
of  the  same  date,  this  list  is  omitted  from  that 
page  and  a  publishers'  list  of  22  pages,  dated  No- 
vember, 1863,  is  bound  in  at  the  end  of  the  book. 


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POSTHUMOUS  WORKS 
PUBLISHED 

1864-1883 

34.  Pansie:  |  A  Fragment.  |  The  Last 
Literary  Effort  Of  |  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. |  London:  John  Camden 
Hotten,  Piccadilly.  [1864.] 

Sexto-decimo.    48  pp. 
Published  in  colored  paper  covers,  with 
woodcut  vignette  of  a  girl,  and  price,  "  six- 
pence," on  recto,  advertisements  on  verso. 
1 6  pp.  advertisements  at  end. 


35.    Passages      From  The 


Note-Books     Of 


thorne. 
Boston : 
1868. 


Vol.  I. 


American 
Nathaniel  Haw- 
[Printer's  mark] 


Ticknor  And   Fields. 


THE    WORKS   OF    NATHANIEL    HAWTHORNE. 

Duodecimo.     Two  volumes. 

Vol.  I :  [2],  222  pp.    Vol.  II :  [2],  228  pp. 

Copyrighted  by  Sophia  Hawthorne,  1868. 

Published  in  stamped  cloth. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  University  Press : 

Welch,  Bigelow  &  Co.,  Cambridge. 

36.  Passages  |  From  The  |  English  Note- 

Books     Of  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 
Vol.  I.     [Printer's  mark]  Boston: 
|  Fields,  Osgood,  &  Co.  |  1870. 

Duodecimo.  Two  volumes. 
Vol.  I :  viii,  410  pp.  Vol.  II :  [i],  393  pp. 
Preface,  signed  "  S.  H."  (Sophia  Haw- 
thorne), dated,  Dresden,  April,  1870;  copy- 
righted, 1870.  Published  in  stamped  cloth. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  University  Press : 
Welch,  Bigelow,  &  Co.,  Cambridge. 

37.  Passages  |  From  The  |  French  And 
Italian  |  Note-Books     Of  |  Nathan- 
iel Hawthorne.  |  Vol.  I.  |  [Printer's 
mark]  Boston:  |  James  R.  Osgood 
And  Company,       Late  Ticknor   & 
Fields,  And  Fields,  Osgood,  &  Co.  | 
1872. 

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Duodecimo.     Two  volumes. 

Vol.  I :  [2],  307  pp.    Vol.  II :  [2],  306  pp. 

Copyrighted,  1871.     Published  in  stamped 

cloth. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  University  Press : 

Welch,  Bigelow,  &  Co.,  Cambridge. 

This  work  was  simultaneously  issued  in  Lon- 
don by  Strahan  and  Co.,  Publishers,  56  Lud- 
gate  Hill,  in  two  volumes,  pp.  371  and  368,  and 
bore  the  date  of  1871 ;  the  American  practice 
being  to  post-date  books  published  late  in  the 
autumn  of  the  year. 

38.  Septimius  Felton;     Or  |  The  Elixir 
Of  Life.    |    By       Nathaniel   Haw- 
thorne.    [Printer's  mark]  Boston:  | 
James  R.  Osgood  And  Company.   | 
1872. 

Duodecimo,     [v,]    [35—229  pp. 

Copyrighted,  1871.     Published  in  stamped 

cloth.     I  p.  publishers'  advertisements  at 

end. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  University  Press : 

Welch,  Bigelow,  &  Co.,  Cambridge. 

39.  The       Dolliver  Romance    |    And   | 
Other  Pieces.  |  By  |  Nathaniel  Haw- 

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thorne.  [Printer's  mark]  Boston:  | 
James  R.  Osgood  And  Company.  | 
1876. 

Duodecimo.     213  pp. 

Copyrighted,   1864  and   1876.     Published 

in  stamped  cloth.     Facing  title,  on  p.  2, 

publishers'  advertisements  of  Hawthorne's 

works. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  Franklin  Press : 

Rand,  Avery,  &  Co.,  Boston. 

Fanshawe  |  And  Other  Pieces.  | 
By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.  [Prin- 
ter's mark]  Boston:  James  R.  Os- 
good And  Company.  1876. 

Duodecimo.     [7,]   [9]—  243  pp. 
Copyrighted,  1876.     Published  in  stamped 
cloth.     Facing  title,  on  p.   2,  publishers' 
advertisements  of  Hawthorne's  works. 
On  verso  of  title-page :  Franklin   Press : 
Rand,  Avery,  &  Co.,  Boston. 

Doctor  Grimshawe's  Secret  |  A  Ro- 
mance |  By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne 
|  Edited,  With  Preface  And  Notes  | 
By  |  Julian  Hawthorne  |  [Vignette] 

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Boston  |  James  R.  Osgood  And 
Company.  |  1883 

Duodecimo,  xiii,  368  pp.  4  pp.  fac- 
similes. Copyrighted,  1882.  Published 
in  pictured  cloth. 

On  verso  of  title-page :  University  Press : 

John  Wilson  And  Son,  Cambridge. 

Besides  the  regular  edition  there  were  250 
copies  on  large  paper.  These  contained  an 
etched  frontispiece  by  E.  H.  Garrett,  an  addi- 
tional title-page  with  etched  vignette,  and  the 
facsimile  of  a  leaf  of  the  manuscript  of  the  book. 
Issued  in  white-paper-covered  boards. 


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ANN.UALS   AND    BOOKS1 

TO   WHICH   HAWTHORNE 
CONTRIBUTED 

1830-1857 

42.  The  Token;   |  A  |   Christmas  And 
New  Year's  Present.  |  Edited  By  S. 
G.  Goodrich.  |    [6  lines]   Boston:   | 
Published  By  Carter  And  Hendee.  | 
MDCCCXXX. 

Twentyfour-mo. 

The  Young  Provincial.     Pp.  127-145. 

43.  The  same  for  1831. 

Sights  From  A  Steeple.    Pp.  41-45. 

The  Haunted  Quack,  A  Tale  Of  A  Canal 
Boat.    By  Joseph  Nicholson.     Pp.  117- 

137. 

/Other  than  magazines  and  periodicals. 

5  55 


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44.  The  same  for  1832. 

The    Wives    Of    The    Dead.      Signed 

"  F "    Pp.  74-82. 

My  Kinsman,  Major  Molineux.  By  the 
Author  Of  '  Sights  From  A  Steeple.' 
Pp.  89-116. 

Roger  Malvin's  Burial.    Pp.  161-188. 
The  Gentle  Boy.    Pp.  193-240. 

45.  The  Token  |  And  |  Atlantic  Souve- 
nir.   |    A    |    Christmas    And    New 
Year's  Present.   |   Edited  By  S.  G. 
Goodrich.  |  Boston.  |  Published  By 
Charles  Bowen.  |  MDCCCXXXIII. 
Sexto-decimo. 

The  Seven  Vagabonds.  By  The  Au- 
thor Of  The  Gentle  Boy.  Pp.  49~7l- 
Sir  William  Pepperell.  By  The  Au- 
thor Of  'Sights  From  A  Steeple/ 
Signed  "H**  *****".  Pp.  124-134. 

46.  The  same  for  1835. 

The  Haunted  Mind.     Pp.  76-82. 
Alice  Doane's  Appeal.     By  the  Author 
Of  The  Gentle  Boy.    Pp.  84-101. 
The  Mermaid ;  A  Reverie.    Pp.  106-121. 
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47.  The  same  for  1836. 

The  Wedding  Knell.  By  The  Author 
Of  Sights  From  A  Steeple.  Pp.  113- 
124. 

The  May-Pole  Of  Merry  Mount.  By 
The  Author  Of  The  Gentle  Boy.  Pp. 
283-297. 

The  Minister's  Black  Veil.  A  Parable. 
By  The  Author  Of  'Sights  From  A 
Steeple/  Pp.  302-320. 

48.  The  same  for  1837. 

Monsieur  Du  Miroir.  By  The  Author 
Of  Sights  From  A  Steeple.  Pp.  49-64. 

Mrs.  Bullfrog.  By  The  Author  Of 
'  Wives  Of  The  Dead/  Pp.  66-75. 

Sunday  At  Home.  By  The  Author  Of 
The  Gentle  Boy.  Pp.  88-96. 

The  Man  Of  Adamant;  An  Apologue. 
By  The  Author  Of  The  Gentle  Boy. 
Pp.  119-128. 

David  Swan.    A  Fantasy.    Pp.  147-155. 

The  Great  Carbuncle.  A  Mystery  Of 
The  White  Mountains.  By  The  Au- 
thor Of  The  Wedding  Knell.  Pp.  156- 
175- 

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Fancy  Show  Box.     Pp.  177-184. 

The  Prophetic  Pictures.     Pp.  288-307. 

49.  The  Token  |  And  |  Atlantic  Souve- 
nir, A  |  Christmas  And  New  Year's 
Present.  |  Edited  By  S.  G.  Goodrich. 
|  Boston:  American  Stationers' 
Company,  |  MDCCCXXXVIII. 
Sylph  Etherege.  Pp.  22-32. 

Peter  Goldthwaite's  Treasure.     By  The 
Author  Of  "Twice  Told  Tales."     Pp. 


Endicott  And  The  Red  Cross.    Pp.  69- 
78. 

Night  Sketches,  Beneath  An  Umbrella. 
Pp.  81-89. 

The  Shaker  Bridal.    By  The  Author  Of 
"Twice-Told  Tales."     Pp.  117-125. 

50.    Youth's  Keepsake.  |  A  |  Christmas 
And  New  Year's  Gift  [  For  |  Young 
People.  |    [4  lines]  Boston:      Pub- 
lished By  E.  R.  Broaders.     1835. 
Twentyfour-mo. 

Little  Annie's  Ramble.    By  The  Author 
of  "  The  Gentle  Boy."     Pp.  147-159. 

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The  |  Picturesque  Pocket  Com- 
panion. |  And  |  Visitor's  Guide,  j 
Through  |  Mount  Auburn:  |  [6 
lines]  Boston:  Otis,  Broaders  And 
Company.  MDCCCXXXIX. 
Sexto-decimo. 

The  Lily's  Quest.     By  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne.    Pp.  230-239. 

The  |  Boston  Book.      Being  Speci- 
mens  of    |    Metropolitan       Litera- 
ture. |  Boston:  |  George  W.  Light, 
i  Cornhill.     1841. 
Duodecimo. 

Howe's     Masquerade.       By     Nathaniel 

Hawthorne.     Pp.   168-189. 

53.  ^Esthetic  Papers.  |  Edited  By  |  Eliza- 
beth P.  Peabody.  |  [10  lines]  Bos- 
ton: The  Editor,  13,  West  Street.  | 
New  York:  |  G.  P.  Putnam,  155, 
Broadway.  |  1849. 
Octavo. 

Art.  VIII.— Main  Street.    Pp.  145-174. 

Not  signed,  but  in  Table  of  Contents  the  en- 
try   reads:  Main-street. — N.    Hawthorne,    Esq. 

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54.  The   |    Memorial:    |    Written  By   | 
Friends  of  the  Late  Mrs.  Osgood  | 
And  Edited     By  Mary  E.  Hewitt,  | 
With    Illustrations    Engraved    On 
Steel  By  J.  Cheney,  J.  Halpin,  J.  S. 
Pease,  |  And  H.  Beckwith.  |  New- 
York:    |    George   P.   Putnam,    155 
Broadway.  |  1851. 

Octavo. 

The  Snow-Image.    A  Childish  Miracle. 
By  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.    Pp.  41-58. 

55.  The  |  Philosophy  |  Of  |  The  Plays 
Of   Shakspeare    |    Unfolded.    |    By 
Delia  Bacon.  |  With  |  A  Preface  | 
By  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne,  |  Author 
Of    'The    Scarlet    Letter/    Etc.    | 
[Quotation]    |    London:    |    Groom- 
bridge    And    Sons,    |    Paternoster 
Row.  |  1857. 

Octavo. 

Preface,    signed    by    Hawthorne.      Pp. 
[vii]— xv. 


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MANUSCRIPTS 

56.    The  Lily's  Quest  |  An  Apologue  |  by 
Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 

Quarto,   leaf   measuring  7%  x  9%   inches. 
Bound  in   straight-grained   mo- 


6V2   pp 
rocco. 


Written  on  white  paper,  on  both  sides  of  the 
leaf.  Folded  as  sent  through  the  mail  by  the 
author.  On  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf  is  the  par- 
tially destroyed  address,  "  [Mrs.  Caroline  How- 
ard] Gilman  |  [Care  of  Rev.]  S.  Oilman,  D.  D.  | 
Charleston  |  South  Carolina." 

Mrs.  Gilman  was  the  editor  of  the  weekly  pe- 
riodical The  Southern  Rose,  in  which  the  tale 
appeared,  January  19,  1839. 

A  proof  of  an  etched  portrait  by  S.  A.  Schoff 
is  inserted  as  frontispiece. 


57.    A     Wonder  Book  |  for     Girls  and 
Boys.  |  by  |  Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 


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Octavo,  leaf  measuring  9%  x  7%  inches. 
134  pp.  Proof  before  letters  of  portrait 
engraved  by  Phillibrown,  inserted  as  fron- 
tispiece. Bound  in  red  half-morocco. 

Written  on  blue  paper,  on  both  sides  of  the 
leaf.    The  preface  is  dated,  Lenox,  July  15,  1851. 


58.    The  Snow-Image   |   a  childish  mir- 
acle. 

Octavo,   leaf  measuring  7%  x  97s   inches. 
15  numbered  pp.    Unbound. 

Written  on  white  paper,  on  one  side  of  seven 
double  sheets  and  one  half  sheet. 

First  published  in  The  Memorial,  1851  (No. 
54)- 


59.    [Life  of  Franklin  Pierce.] 

Folio  and  quarto,  leaves  measuring  7-ff 
x  12%  inches,  and  7yf  x  9ii  inches.  58 
numbered  pp.  as  follows :  "  Preface,"  [2] 
pp.,  [Text],  pp.  24-37,  38-39,  53-77,  84- 
87,  "  Note,"  88.  9  unnumbered  pp.  with 
directions  "  Insert  at  pp.  37  of  my  manu- 
script." Unbound. 

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Written  on  blue  paper,  on  one  side  of  the 
leaf,  except  the  insert,  which  is  written  on  both 
sides. 

The  Preface  is  dated  Concord,  (Mass.),  Au- 
gust 27th,  1852. 

Accompanying  the  manuscript  are  six  letters 
from  Hawthorne  to  Ticknor  and  six  letters 
from  President  Pierce  to  the  publisher. 


60.    [Doctor  Grimshawe's  Secret.] 


Quarto,  leaf  measuring  ?H  x  9^  inches. 
19  11.,  numbered  as  follows:  9-12,  32-35, 
39-43,  52-53,  70-73.  Unbound. 

Written  on  white  paper,  on  both  sides  of  the 
leaf  except  the  verso  of  1.  43,  which  is  blank. 

Written  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  1863,  pub- 
lished 1883. 


LETTERS 

6l.     GROUP  OF  ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY- 
TWO  LETTERS  FROM  HAWTHORNE  TO 

SOPHIA  A.  PEABODY,  1839-1863. 

Nearly  all  of  the  first  fifty-eight  letters, 
beginning  March  6,  1839,  are  from  Bos- 
ton, some  being  dated  at  the  Custom 
House,  where  he  was  employed  at  the 
time. 

Then  follow  forty-six  letters  written 
from  Salem,  Brook  Farm  (West  Rox- 
bury),  Albany,  and  New  York,  ending 
with  one  dated  at  Salem,  June  30,  1842,  a 
few  days  before  their  wedding,  which  took 
place  in  Boston,  July  9,  1842,  at  the  home 
of  her  father,  Dr.  Peabody. 

An  interval  of  some  months  is  broken  by 

a  letter  from  Salem  dated  March  12,  1843, 

and  the  remaining  forty-seven  letters  were 

written  at  intervals  during  the  next  twenty 

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years.  A  few  are  dated  at  Liverpool  and 
London,  and  the  last  is  from  Salem,  May 
9,  1863. 

62.     GROUP  OF  ONE  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY- 
NINE    LETTERS    FROM     HAWTHORNE 

TO  WILLIAM  D.  TICKNOR,  1851- 
1864. 

The  first  of  these  letters  is  from  Lenox, 
Mass.,  dated  November  14,  1851,  soon 
after  the  publication  of  the  Wonder-Book 
and  The  House  of  the  Seven  Gables,  and 
the  following  fifteen  are  from  Concord, 
June  8,  1852,  to  July  5,  1853. 

The  next  ninety-two  cover  the  period 
of  Hawthorne's  consulate  at  Liverpool,  be- 
ginning with  one  dated  July  22,  1853,  and 
ending  with  another  September  26,  1857,  a 
few  having  been  written  from  Southport, 
Leamington,  and  Lake  Windemere. 

While  on  the  Continent,  during  the  next 
two  years,  Hawthorne  wrote  occasionally 
from  Paris  and  Rome,  and  after  returning 
to  England  a  number  were  written  from 
Leamington  and  Bath. 

The  remaining  twenty-seven  are  from 
Concord,  except  one  from  Ellsworth, 
Maine,  after  he  returned  to  the  United 
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States.  The  last  of  these  bears  the  date  of 
March  18,  1864,  ten  days  before  leaving 
Boston  with  Ticknor  on  a  trip  to  Wash- 
ington, brought  to  an  end  by  Ticknor's 
sudden  death  at  Philadelphia  on  April  10. 
Hawthorne  only  survived  him  by  a  few 
weeks,  his  own  death  coming  as  suddenly 
on  the  i Qth  of  May. 


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PORTRAITS 

63.  PORTRAIT  IN  OILS,  BY  EMANUEL 
LEUTZE  (1816-1868).  PAINTED  IN 
1862. 

Hawthorne  visited  Washington  in  March, 
1862,  and  meeting  Leutze,  the  artist,  con- 
sented to  sit  for  a  portrait,  and  thus  de- 
scribes one  sitting :  "  I  stay  here  only 
while  Leutze  finishes  a  portrait,  which  I 
think  will  be  the  best  ever  painted  of  the 
same  unworthy  subject.  One  charm  it 
must  needs  have,— an  aspect  of  immortal 
jollity  and  well-to-do-ness;  for  Leutze, 
when  the  sitting  begins,  gives  me  a  first- 
rate  cigar,  and  when  he  sees  me  getting 
tired,  he  brings  out  a  bottle  of  splendid 
champagne;  and  we  quaffed  and  smoked 
yesterday,  in  a  blessed  state  of  mutual 
good-will,  for  three  hours  and  a  half,  dur- 
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ing  which  the  picture  made  a  really  mi- 
raculous progress.  Leutze  is  the  best  of 
fellows." 

64.  PHOTOGRAPH  BY  SILSBEE,  CAGE  & 
Co.,  BOSTON,  MASS. 

Of  this,  or  another  of  the  photographs 
taken  just  at  this  time  (1862),  Hawthorne 
writes :  "  My  hair  really  is  not  so  white  as 
this  photograph,  which  I  enclose,  makes 
me.  The  sun  seems  to  take  an  infernal 
pleasure  in  making  me  venerable,— as  if 
I  were  as  old  as  himself." 

65.  PHOTOGRAPH    OF   A    PORTRAIT    IN 
CRAYON,    BY   SAMUEL   WORCESTER 
ROWSE  (b.  1822). 

The  crayon  was  made  by  Rowse  in  1866, 
in  the  second  year  after  Hawthorne's 
death,  and  probably  from  the  photograph 
described  above.  Mrs.  Hawthorne,  in  a 
letter  to  Mr.  Fields,  written  just  after 
seeing  the  crayon,  thus  describes  her  im- 
pression :  "  Rose  was  struck  blind  (as  I 
was  giddy)  when  she  first  looked  at  the 
portrait,  but  when  she  got  home  she  said 
there  was  a  want,  she  believed  it  was  lack 
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of  sweetness  and  radiance  of  expression — 
but  something.  But  she  says  it  is  a  mira- 
cle that  Mr.  Rowse  has  performed,  as  it 
is.  I  wish  I  could  bless  you  in  some  way, 
but  I  can't." 

In  1871  Fields  writes:  "The  portrait 
I  am  looking  at  was  made  by  Rowse  (an 
exquisite  drawing),  and  is  a  very  truthful 
representation  of  the  head  of  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne.  He  was  several  times  painted 
and  photographed,  but  it  was  impossible 
for  art  to  give  the  light  and  beauty  of  his 
wonderful  eyes." 

Group  of  proofs  of  half-tones  made 
from  portraits,  daguerreotypes,  and 
photographs  taken  during  the  pe- 
riod from  1840  to  1862. 

Exhibited  by  permission  of  the  Essex 
Institute. 


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